The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-07-14
REATFESTVAL } ARRANGED BY
 SWEDISH UNION

The American Union of Swedish singers will hold festival in Bridge port Sept. 2. 3 and 4 Arrangements for the occasion are being made now, and the committee in charge are planning for the biggest ever held by the organization.
 The American Un.on of Swedish Singers is a purely musical OrganlZa- tion, whose ambition is to cultivate Swedish song and music in general. and Swedish male chorus compost to make these elements of Swedish culture known and appreciated III this country through the medium of biennial music festivals.
 History of Society.
 The Union was organized Thanks giving Day. 1892, at a meeting in Chicago, to which nine singing clubs from New York, Chicago, Minnea,po- lis, St. Paul. Moline and Rockford had sent delegates. Today the Union numbers 56 clubs, with a total mem bership of 1.133 singers. of whom 2S5 are first tenors, 260 second tenors, 269 first basses and 319 second passes The singing clubs are found in every c.ty between the Atlantic and the Rockies known as a center for Swed- ish-Americans.
 The first festival of the American Union of Swedish singers was ar ranged for in Chicago, in connection with the three official Swedish days at the Worlds Fair of 1S93.- | At the New York convention of 1897, the Singers Union, for practi- cal purposes, organized subdivisions of the East and West. with biennial festivals and conventions Tor each and quadrennials to be held Jointly. Thus in 1899 the Eastern singers held their festival in Worcester, Mass, and the Western singers theirs in Rockford, III.
 The third quadrennial festival was held in Jamestown in 1901, the fourth | N1ai f1 ', y1a | New York in 1910, the last mention ed postponed one year to give addi- tional time of preparation for the second tour to Sweden. In the James, | twn festival the baton of the director l in chief was swung for the first time | by Arvid Akerlind. for many years assistant director of the famous | Upsala student choruses, and again | director-in-chief of the Union at the time of his much deplored death in I the spring of 1914. | At the convention in Boston, 1920, | the representatives for the Norden 1 forth very strong effort to bring the next festival of the Eastern Division to it's own city and were successful.
 The Program.
 The activities, for the three days of the festival, Sept. 2. and 4, Lab or 1 Day are arranged in the following | manner:
 Saturday, Sept. 2-s-12 a. m., ar l TlNdI Ol SutSlS 1N0CepIlOn at field hotel; 12:3O, luncheon; 3:OO parade and concert at Soldiers and Sailors monument at Seaside Park l 4:00 and $500 p. m.; S:00, entertain ment.
 Sunday, Sept. 3rd-9-12 a. m., re- hearsal of grand chorus; 3:0O, con cert; S:OO, concert.
 | Monday, Sept 4th, Labor Day)- a. m., business convention; 10 a. m. cortege to The Farm and round trip through city; D. m., dinner or barbecue at ''The Farm" athletics and entertainment.
 Societies Represented. Following is a list of the visiting they represent.
 | 1, Boston, Mass, Harmony Singing Club; ?. Boston. Mass. Swedish Apollo Club; 3, Boston, Mass, Swedish Glee tette; 5. Brooklyn, N. Y, Swedish Glee Club; 6, Gardner, Mass, Neptune Singing Club; 2. Hartford, Conn. Swedish Glee Club; s, Jamestown, N town. N. Y, Swedish Singing Society; 10, Manchester, N. H., Harmony Singing Club; II, New Britain, Conn. Apri Male sextette; 12. New Britain New Haven. Conn.,, Apollo Singing Society; 14, New York, N. Y, Svea Singing Society; Is, New York, N. Y. Swedish Singing Society Lyran; 16 Hii1uSlpll1St, oCdlluIndNlan NI1GC Club; IT, Pittsburgh, Pa., Swedish Glee Club; IS, Providence. R. l.. Sing ing Society Verdandf; 19, Quincy Mass, Scandia Glee Club; 20. Rock. port, Mass, Swedish Glee Club: 21 Springfield, Mass, "Orphei Drangar' 32, Worcester, Mass, Swedish Glee Club; 23, Worcester, Mass, Thule Singing Society.
 The Songs.
 The following songs are to be sung by the grand (estimated 5O( voices):
 Star Spangled Banner; Hear Us SVea, Wennerberg; March, from En- gelbrekt, Blanche; Wort Land (Oul | Country), Josephson; 'Brollopsstass GA Peasant Wedding), L1indh; North land. Stenhammer; Sveriges Flagga | CF1ag of Sweden. Stenhammer: Nor gon CMorning), Ek1off; Land Kjend, ing, Grieg; America.
 Da CapO.
 | Var Sang (Spring Song), Phin. tfIstaV; BjornebOrgarnes March Muntra Musikanter, Riccius; Till init | hem Gro my home), Kramer.