Music Master of the Middle West : The Story of F. Melius Christiansen and the...

by Leola Bergmann

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Music Master of the Middle West : The Story of F. Melius Christiansen and the St. Olaf Choir, Paperback by Bergmann, Leola, ISBN 0816671192, ISBN-13 9780816671199, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Music Master of the Middle West was first published in 1944. Minnesota Archive Editions uses technology to make long-unavailabls once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press 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 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 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 ch

• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Year: 1944
• Binding: Paperback
• ISBN: 9780816671199
• Condition: Fine

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