Word: saengerfests
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First U. S. Saengerbund was organized in 1835 at Philadelphia, first Saengerfest held in 1849 at Cincinnati. Thereafter all over the country the German music germ spread. In the West during the woolly days of the Gold Rush, a Dr. Maleck, stout fellow of the rough frontier, led miners, gamblers, traders, hangers-on in rollicking Teutonic song. For the rest of the century, German societies sprang up, lived a short time, died. It was not until 1905 that the present Pacific Saengerbund was born. Robert Lorentz was its organizer, G. G. Reigger its leader. In 1910 the first Pacific fest...
...celebration of the 100th anniversary of the death of Franz Schubert, Vienna held last week its Saengerfest, the tenth Congress of German Singing Societies to which no less than 200,000 singers lent their services. In Vienna, grandstands seating 400,000 persons were constructed along the Ringstrasse in which the Viennese watched an almost interminable parade of singers. Richard Strauss, Vienna's chief musical luminary, opened the choral singing which was conducted in a huge hall specially constructed for the purpose on the Prater...
...addition to celebrating the death of Franz Schubert the Saengerfest served to emphasize Teutonic solidarity and was hence displeasing to those who do not favor the idea of too much unanimity between Austria and Germany...
Clevelanders could not resist humming to themselves as they listened, in their public auditorium of which they are proud, to a male chorus of 4,000 Germans singing Friedrich Rotbardt. It was good singing. It was also a climax of the 36th national Saengerfest of the North American Saengerbund...
...fitting that the Saengerfest should be directed by Bruno Walter, music master of present-day Teutons. His baton had many times hushed audiences of the Staatsoper, once the Royal Opera of Berlin. Even at 17, he had directed the opera at Cologne. Munich, Vienna, Riga had acclaimed him. Later, when anti-Semitic feeling grew bitter in Europe, he sailed for the U. S. Some say he is first in the hearts of German-Americans...
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