with Introductory Remarks on the Works to be Performed
GEORGE JEFFERSON (Piano)

Part 1. Popular Light Opera Airs
Tom Jones (E. German). West Country Lad; If Love's Content
Merrie England (E. German). Yeomen of England; English Rose
A Country Girl (Monckton). My Own Little Girl; A Sailor's Life
Dorothy (Cellier). Queen of My Heart

Part II. Longfellow's 'Hiawatha' (The Departure)
Iagoo, 'the great boaster,' has been wandering far afield. He returns and tells of what he has seen - a great canoe with a hundred warriors, coming to the Red Man's country. 'Painted white were all their faces,' he assures his incredulous hearers, who laugh and will not believe him.
Then Hiawatha, who has not scoffed, says, 'True is all lagoo tells us; I have seen it in a vision.' This is the first of the extracts we are now to hear.
The second extract, 'Beautiful is the sun, O strangers,' is Hiawatha's welcome to the white men, who prove to be missionaries. They are hospitably received.
Then Hiawatha says to Nokomis, the old nurse: 'I am going, O Nokomis, On a long and distant journey, To the portals of the sunset,' and leaves the guests to her care. He goes into the village, and repeats to his friends his farewell - 'I am going, O my people, on a long and distant journey'; and bidding them listen to the white men's message, leaves his home and kindred on his journey 'into the fiery sunset.'