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1BURTON, FREDERICK RUSSELL (Feb. 23, 1861, Jonesville, Mich. : Sept. 30, 1909, Lake Hopatcong, N. J.), was graduated from Harvard in 1882 summa cum laude and with highest honors in music. While there he wrote music for 'Hiawatha,' a favorite legend with him from childhood. This setting, notable as one of the first attempts to use Indian themes, was sung at a glee-club concert in 1882, completed as a dramatic cantata and published in 1898. He undertook an intimate study of Indian music in Canada and the United States, spending much of his time and means, and living among the Indians for long periods. In 1903 he published Songs of the Ojibway Indians, later expanded into the masterly treatise American Primitive Music (containing 28 Ojibway songs) and published in 1909, just after his death. In 1896 he organized and conducted a choral society at Yonkers, N. Y. For some years he wrote musical criticisms for the New York 'Sun.' Other compositions are 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' (1900), an 'Inauguration Ode' (1901) for the second inauguration of President McKinley, and various songs and choruses. He also wrote the novels The Song and the Singer, Her Wedding Interlude, Shifting Sands, and Strongheart. [ R.7 ]
3BUSCH, CARL (Mar. 29, 1862, Bjerre, Denmark), first entered the University of Copenhagen as a law-student, but the appeal of music soon led to study with Olavesen, Krugel and Langgaard and then to taking violin with Tofte at the Conservatory, piano with Bondesen and theory with Hartmann and Gade. During a three years' course he played under Gade in the Musical Society, Svendsen in the Philharmonic and Dahl in the Tivoli Orchestra. By way of Brussels, in 1886 he went to Paris, playing and studying under Godard. In 1887 he came to Kansas City, where for over thirty years he has conferred prestige upon the city by many useful undertakings. He formed the Orchestral Society and conducted it for five years, and its successor, the Philharmonic, which emphasized Scandinavian works in a long series of Sunday concerts. Several festivals were under his direction. Since 1912 he has led the Symphony Orchestra, and is active in choral and church-music. As guest-conductor he has given his own works with various American orchestras, and also in Leipzig, Dresden and Copenhagen. He is a naturalized citizen here, but was knighted in 1912 by the Danish government in recognition of his services to Scandinavian music. As composer he has become widely known. His list of works includes
5'The Passing of Arthur,' a symphonic prologue after Tennyson (Breitkopf).
6'Minnehaha's Vision,' a symphonic poem (Ditson).
7'Elegy,' for string-orchestra (Breitkopf).
8Cantatas:
9'The League of the Alps' (Ditson).
10'King Olaf' (Ditson).
11'Paul Revere's Ride' (Ditson).
12'A Song of Spring' (Ditson).
13'The Four Winds' (Gray) — prize at Philadelphia.
14'The American Flag' (Gray).
15'May,' for children's voices and orchestra (Gray) — prize at Evanston Festival.
16'The Brown Heather,' for men's chorus and orchestra (Gray).
17'The Voice of Spring' (Luckhardt & Belder).
18'America' (Boston Music Co.) — prize at New Jersey Tri-City Festival.
19'Quivera' — prize at Topeka Festival.
20'The Song of a Star' — prize from Brooklyn Arion.
21'Alexander's Feast,' for men's chorus — prize at Pittsburgh.
22'Ode to Breckinridge' — prize at Lexington, Ky.
23'Denmark's Day.'
24'The Fourth of July.'
25'Ode to France.'
26About 20 choruses and anthems, and over 40 songs and many violin-pieces (above publishers).
27Symphony in C.
28String-Quartet.
29Two Suites for orchestra.
30'When the Heart is Young' and 'The Day is Done' — prizes from the Chicago Madrigal Club.
32Busch is a Longfellow enthusiast and has set many of his poems. He has also delved much into Negro and Indian music, as shown by themes in his suites, songs and other works. [ R.7 ]
34BUSHNELL, J. See TUNE-BOOKS, 1807.
35BUTCHER, FRANK CHARLES (b.1882). See Register, 9.
36BUTLER, HAROLD LANCASTER (b. 1874). See Register, 8.
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