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- [1929x1932] / (Creation)
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1 score (9 p.) + 3 items.
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Daniel Protheroe (1866-1934), composer and conductor, was born in November 1866 in Ystradgynlais, Breconshire, the son of Daniel and Eleanor Protheroe. He emigrated to Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA, in 1885. He graduated in music in 1890, and was later awarded a doctorate. He conducted various choral societies at the Scranton Cymmrodorion Choral Society, Milwaukee, and Chicago, Illinois, where he lived until his death, teaching at the Sherwood Music School, and was Musical Director of the Central Church, Chicago. He visited Wales frequently to adjudicate and conduct. He composed anthems and hymn-tunes which continue to be popular with congregations and male voice choirs. He was the author of Arwain Corau (1914) and Nodau damweiniol a d'rawyd o dro i dro (1924). Rhys Morgan ('The Welsh Tenor', 1892-1961), singer and conductor, was born at Ynysmeudwy, Glamorgan, the son of John and Mary Thomas Morgan, and grew up at nearby Gelli-nudd. He emigrated to the USA in 1913, with his wife, Mary Ellen Gabe, and their three month old son, settling in Chicago, where he became a pupil of Daniel Protheroe. He later moved to New York, winning acclaim as an operatic singer, and was known as the 'Welsh Caruso'. He toured the USA and Canada with a varied repertoire including Welsh folk songs. He made several recordings, conducted at singing festivals in the USA, and composed works for his own choirs, as well as arranging Welsh folk songs.
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Mrs Carolyn Adkins; USA; Donation; August 2009; 4910243.
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A pencil score of The Four Winds by Daniel Protheroe, arranged for orchestra, [1929x1932], by Dorothy Bundy; together with a printed transcript of the score, a short biography written by the donors, [2009], and a scanned copy of a photograph of Ms. Bundy whilst studying at Ottowa University, Kansas, 1932. The original work by Daniel Protheroe, a part-song bearing the title The Four Winds, words by Charles H. Luders, was published at Chicago, Ill., [ca. 1920], by Gamble Hinged Music Co. as part of the Chicago Madrigal Club collection.
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Preferred citation: NLW ex 2643.
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- Bundy, Dorothy. (Subject)
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- English