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THE PROGRAMME WILL CONSIST OF WAR SONGS, SCALP SONGS, AND DANCES OF THE NORTH WESTERN INDIANS. Zonzimonde Wakonda On the War Path Victory Dance ZUNI SONGS Sunrise Call Coming of Montezuma Blanket Song CRADLE SONGS Little Owlet Wah-wah-tay-see Uncheeda's Lullaby The Cradle that Hangs on the Bough FLAGEOLET CALLS (the only musical instrument besides the drum used by the Indians) Trysting Call In the Canoe In Snowy Solitudes A Voice in the Wilderness CEREMONIAL AND GAME SONGS Music of the Calumet Button Button Green Corn Dance Four Night's Dance MISCELLANEOUS SONGS The Thunder God and the Rainbow Tigua Children's Song The Chattering Squaw and others The wealth of melody and folk music among our Native Indians is just beginning to command the serious attention of the musicians and composers of this country. For years the songs of the Indians have been collected and preserved by ethnologists, but it is only comparatively recently that our native composers have discovered that therein is a mine practically unexplored. Coming to the notice of Mr. Loomis, through the medium of the Wa Wan Press, this music made a deep impression on him, and he was quick to recognize the wonderful melody, weird fantasy, barbaric beauty, and pictorial suggestion found in the songs and dances of the Red Man. The results he has obtained in his efforts to bring the music of the desert, of mountain fastnesses, of rolling prairies to the comprehension of civilized ears are remarkable and more than interesting. War dances, scalp dances, cradle songs, ceremonial and legendary songs he has treated in various ways, presenting with unusual skill the atmosphere of the Indian as he sings his songs under the varying conditions for which they were composed, yet never departing from the original melody. Some, wild and barbaric in their character, he has treated as they might be rendered by the Indian in his native haunt, producing, as far as may be through our alien instruments, the feeling, spirit and local color of the wild child of nature whose songs are his religion. Others he has rendered in a modern, civilized spirit, the melodies seeming to more properly lend themselves to such mode of expression. In the present recital all the music to be given is from the various tribes scattered through the United States, and the melodies are all authentic. A wide variety will be shown, and what may be done with them exemplified. Thus a programme of unusual novelty and exceptional character will be presented ably interpreted by distinguished artists, whose sympathy with the music peculiarly fits them to reproduce as far as possible the significance and individuality of the melodies.