This is a 2 stage multi cache. Stage one will take you to the HANSON House and a sign that gives you information about other noted personalities from Wahoo, NE. The HANSON House is open at various times during the year. A sign on the front door of the house tells when it will be open to the public.
At S2, the Final Stage, you will find a Camoed Rx Bottle off the beaten trail. To get to Ground Zero, cachers will have to park in one of 3 designated spots and hike a short distance that will require some bushwacking at the end. PLEASE NOTE the NO PARKING AREAS.
Wahoo has many heroes. HOWARD HANSON (October 28, 1896 – February 26, 1981) was a musical genius. He was a composer, conductor, educator, music theorist and a leader in American classical music.
HOWARD HANSON was the director of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. In 1944 he won a Pulitzer Prize for his Symphony #4. He is of Swedish decent as are many of the people in the Wahoo area. His parents Hans and Hilma were immigrants to our country.
HANSON study at Luther College in Wahoo and was a graduate in 1911. The college no longer operates but many of the abandoned buildings can still be seen in NW Wahoo. He also studied at Institute of Musical Art (Julliard School in NYC) and Northwestern University where he earned a BA in Music in 1916.
“In 1916, Hanson was hired for his first full-time position as a music theory and composition teacher at the College of the Pacific in California. Only three years later, the college appointed him Dean of the Conservatory of Fine Arts in 1919. In 1920, Hanson composed The California Forest Play, his earliest work to receive national attention. Hanson also wrote a number of orchestral and chamber works during his years in California, including Concerto da Camera, Symphonic Legend, Symphonic Rhapsody, various solo piano works, such as Two Yuletide Pieces, and the Scandinavian Suite, which celebrated his Lutheran and Scandinavian heritage.
In 1921 Hanson was the first winner of the Prix de Rome in Music (the American Academy's Rome Prize), awarded for both The California Forest Play and his symphonic poem Before the Dawn. Thanks to the award, Hanson lived in Italy for three years. During his time in Italy, Hanson wrote a Quartet in One Movement, Lux Aeterna, The Lament for Beowulf, and his Symphony No. 1, "Nordic", the premiere of which he conducted with the Augusteo Orchestra on May 30, 1923. The three years Hanson spent on his Fellowship at the American Academy were, he considered, the formative years of his life, as he was free to compose, conduct without the distraction of teaching—he could devote himself solely to his art.
Upon returning from Rome, Hanson's conducting career expanded. He made his premiere conducting the New York Symphony Orchestry in his tone poem North and West. In Rochester, NY in 1924, he conducted his Symphony No. 1. This performance brought him to the attention of George Eastman.
In 1924, Eastman chose Hanson to be director of the Eastmand School of Music. Eastman, inventor of the Kodak camera and roll film, was also a major philanthropist, and used some of his great wealth to endow the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester.
Hanson held the position of director for forty years, during which he created one of the most prestigious music schools in America. He accomplished this by improving the curriculum, bringing in better teachers, and refining the school's orchestras. Also, he balanced the school's faculty between American and European teachers, even when this meant passing up composer Bela Bartok. Hanson offered a position to Bartók teaching composition at Eastman, but Bartók declined as he did not believe that one could teach composition. Instead, Bartók wanted to teach piano at the Eastman School, but Hanson already had a full staff of piano instructors.
In 1925, Hanson established the American Composers Orchestral Concerts. Later, he founded the Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, which consisted of first chair players from the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and selected students from the Eastman School. He followed that by establishing the Festivals of American Music. Hanson made many recordings (mostly for Mercury Records) with the Eastman-Rochester Orchestra, not only of his own works, but also those of other American composers such as John Alden Carpenter, Charles Tomlinson Griffes, John Knowles Paine, Walter Piston, and William Grant Still. Hanson estimated that more than 2000 works by over 500 American composers were premiered during his tenure at the Eastman School.
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestry, Serge Koussevilzky commissioned Hanson's Symphony No 2, the "Romantic", and premiered it on November 28, 1930. This work was to become Hanson's best known. One of its themes is performed at the conclusion of all concerts at the Interlochen Center for the Arts. Now known as the "Interlochen Theme", it is conducted by a student concertmaster after the featured conductor has left the stage. Traditionally, no applause follows its performance.[4] It is also widely known for its use in the final scene and end credits of the 1979 Ridley Scott film Alien.
In some ways Hanson's opera Merry Mount (1934) may be considered the first fully American opera. It was written by an American composer and an American librettist on an American story, and was premiered with a mostly American cast at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1934. The Opera received fifty curtain calls at its Met premiere, a record that still stands. In 1935, he wrote "Three Songs from Drum Taps", based on the poem by Walt Whitman.
Hanson was elected as a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1935, President of the Music Teachers' National Association from 1929–30, and President of the National Association of Schools of Music from 1935–39. From 1946–62, he was active in United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). UNESCO commissioned Hanson's Pastorale for Oboe and Piano, and Pastorale for Oboe, Strings, and Harp, for the 1949 Paris conference of the world body.
Frederick Fennell, conductor of the Eastman Wind Ensemble, described Hanson's first band composition, the 1954 Chorale and Alleluia as "the most awaited piece of music to be written for the wind band in my twenty years as a conductor in this field". Chorale and Alleluia is still a required competition piece for high school bands in the New York State School Music Association's repertoire list.
In 1960, Hanson published a book Harmonic Materials of Modern Music (1960).
Though not an example of integral music theory, it contained fruitful ideas and analytic algorithms which were incorporated in later theories such as set theory of Allen Forte. The idea of 'modal modulation' (Hanson's term) echoed in the Yuri Kholopov's 'variable mode' doctrine.
From 1961 to 1962, Hanson took the Eastman Philharmonia, a student ensemble, on a European tour which passed through Paris, Cairo, Moscow, and Vienna, among other cities. The tour showcased the growth of serious American music for Europe and the Middle East.”
Information cited from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hanson
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AB _____ = 1st & 3rd Numbers in the date when Hanson was elected as a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
C _____ = The Number of letters in the first name of the next to the last person listed on the sign.
D _____ = The Number of letters in the very first word on the top of the sign.
E _____ = Add the four numbers in the year Hanson graduated from Luther College and subtract 9.
Checksum: A+B+C+D+E = 18
FG: _____ = The number of letters in the first two lines of the sign + 8
H _____ = The number of the Symphony Hanson conducted in 1924 in Rochester NY.
I _____ = The number of letters in the 4th word on the top of the sign. (The last word in the title.)
J _____ = The number of the Symphony premiered on November 28, 1930
Checksum: F+G+H+I+J = 18
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