Other choral compositions by Converse are a ‘Serenade’ (1908) for soprano and tenor solos, male chorus and small orchestra (text by John Macy) and ‘The Peace Pipe’ (1915), a cantata for baritone solo, mixed chorus and orchestra to text from Longfellow’s ‘Song of Hiawatha.’ Longfellow, who has probably furnished more texts for cantatas and choral ballads than any other one poet, is also drawn upon by Carl Busch for his cantata, ‘The Four Winds’ (1907) (again from ‘The Song of Hiawatha’), a lengthy work calling for soprano and tenor solos with chorus. Rossetter Gleason Cole (born 1866), in his lyrical idyl, ‘The Passing of Summer’ (1902), written to a libretto by Elsie Jones Cooley, presents a pastoral scene in which two lovers go forth at the dawning of summer’s last day and witness gracious Summer’s farewell to all her children--the summer winds, the falling leaves, the soft-hued flowers--but as evening falls they rejoice that love’s flower, which Summer had planted in their hearts, dies not. The score, which is quite lengthy, demands soprano, tenor and contralto solos, chorus and orchestra. David Stanley Smith (born 1877) appears among the list of choral writers with two short works--‘The Logos’ (The Word is Made Flesh), published in 1908, which is a Christmas cantata for three solo voices (The Logos, the Angel Gabriel and Mary) and chorus of angelic voices and voices from earth; and ‘God our Life’ (1906), a sacred cantata for general use. FOOTNOTES: [88] _Les Post-Elgariens_, par X.-M. Boulestin, S. I. M., Jan., 1914. [89] Schering: _Geschichte des Oratoriums_, pp. 591-592. CHAPTER XIII CONTEMPORARY CHORAL MUSIC IN FRANCE, ITALY, RUSSIA AND ELSEWHERE Debussy: _L’enfant prodigue_, _La demoiselle élue_ and _Le martyre de Saint-Sébastien_; Reynaldo Hahn: _La pastorale de Noël_; Gabriel Pierné: _La croisade des enfants_; _Les enfants de Bethlehem_; _Les fioretti de Saint-François d’Assisi_--Florent Schmitt: Psalm XLVII; Vincent d’Indy: _Chant de la cloche_, etc.--Renaissance of oratorio in Italy; Perosi and his oratorios; Bossi: _Canticum canticorum_; _Il Paradiso perduto_; Wolf-Ferrari: _La Vita Nuova_ and other works--Scandinavia; choral music in Russia; Moussorgsky; Rimsky-Korsakoff; Glazounoff; Glière; Arensky and others; choral composition in Poland, Bohemia, Hungary, Spain. I