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Music Master of the Middle West - The Story of F. Melius Christiansen and the St. Olaf Choir (Paperback, Minne Ed.)
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Music Master of the Middle West - The Story of F. Melius Christiansen and the St. Olaf Choir (Paperback, Minne Ed.)
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Music Master of the Middle West was first published in 1944.
Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make
long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published
unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press
editions.Probably only in the fields of sports and music could
fifty college undergraduates draw 5000 spectators. The far-famed
St. Olaf Choir can and does; yearly it amazes concert-goers from
New York to San Francisco by its seemingly impossible
perfection.For the thousands who already know the choir and its
director, for those interested in music and its development, this
book has been written. Here are the stories of F. Melius
Christiansen, his choir, and the setting of Norwegian-American
Lutheranism out of which he grew.Christiansen brought to this
country a rich treasure of Norwegian folk music. Years of study in
Minneapolis and Europe, of directing band and choir groups in
midwestern towns, prepared hum for the work that was to bring him
fame."The story of Christiansen's contribution to American music,
his recognized influence on choral singing from coast to coast, is
the story of an Old World heritage shaped and enlarged by the free,
wide ways and the deep soul-hunger of the New. `Norway gave me
much,' says Christiansen, `but America has taught me how to use
it.'"Mrs. Bergmann's account of the choir, its personnel, training,
and experience, is full of lively anecdotes as well as technical
details. Her own four years as a member of the group, her
behind-the-scenes knowledge enable her to convey the spirit of the
singers, to discuss frankly both strength and weakness. But always
she insists that success "lies not in the superior quality of the
voices that make up the choirs, since Christiansen chooses largely
the average, untrained voice, but in the nature of the
director."Thus it is primarily F. Melius Christiansen's story,
concerned with his techniques and methods and, above all, with the
vigorous personality which makes him remembered by all who know
him.
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