Word: sangervolksfest
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...Minnesota's dirt-farming Lieutenant Governor Henry Arens presided. Featured were Tenor Paul Althouse, Soprano Elsa Alsen, and part of the Minneapolis Symphony directed by able Alexander Smallens, assistant conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Day after the broadcast, farmers and cityfolk strolled about Harriet Park in an informal Sangervolksfest. Here they sang not Wagner or Beethoven but their own songs, beginning casually, swelling mightily as thousands joined...
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