[{"text_idx": "#000001", "text": "Ar hyn of bryd mae'r cynnwys hwn ar gael yn Saesneg yn unig."}, {"text_idx": "#000003", "text": "hyrwyddo a dathlu cerddoriaeth Cymru"}, {"text_idx": "#000004", "text": "promoting and celebrating the music of Wales"}, {"text_idx": "#000008", "text": "Ein gwaith / Our work"}, {"text_idx": "#000014", "text": "Yn ei ddydd, Daniel Protheroe oedd un o gerddorion pwysicaf a mwyaf poblogaidd Cymru a weithiai yn America yn ogystal a\u0302 Chymru."}, {"text_idx": "#000015", "text": "Wedi\u2019i eni a\u2019i fagu yn Ystradgynlais yng Nghwm Tawe, daeth yn arweinydd cydnabyddedig ym maes cerddoriaeth Gymreig yn yr Unol Daleithiau yn ogystal a\u0302 chyfrannwr mawr i gerddora yng Nghymru. Yn gyfansoddwr toreithiog, cofnodwyd dros fil o hawlfreiniau gweithiau o genres cymysg iddo yn Llyfrgell y Gyngres heb so\u0302n am y gweithiau a gyhoeddwyd yng Nghymru, megis y rhai ar gyfer corau meibion, emynau a chaneuon plant. Mae\u2019r rhan fwyaf o\u2019i weithiau cyhoeddedig yn archifau Llyfrgell y Gyngres yn Washington DC gyda rhai o\u2019i bapurau personol a llawysgrifau yng nghasgliad Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru yn Aberystwyth."}, {"text_idx": "#000016", "text": "Yn 19 oed, ymfudodd Daniel Protheroe o\u2019r Ystrad gan ymgartrefu yn Scranton, Pensylfania, canolbwynt yr America Gymreig yr adeg honno. Yn wahanol i lawer o\u2019r rheini a aeth i Scranton, nid mynd yn lo\u0308wr, gweithiwr haearn na labrwr ddaru Protheroe, ond aeth ati\u2019n syth i gychwyn gyrfa lwyddiannus fel cerddor rhyngwladol \u2013 fel arweinydd, addysgwr, beirniad, canwr, awdur ac yn bwysicaf oll, fel cyfansoddwr."}, {"text_idx": "#000019", "text": "Tra oedd yn Scranton, sefydlodd ac arwain Cymdeithas Gorawl y Cymrodorion gyda thros 250 o gantorion corawl Cymreig. Enillodd y co\u0302r yr ail wobr yn Eisteddfod Ryngwladol Ffair y Byd, Chicago ym 1893 a Daniel Protheroe oedd y person cyntaf yn Scranton i lwyfannu ac arwain oratorio (Gwledd Alecsander gan Handel) gyda cherddorfa. Yn Scranton hefyd y cwrddodd a phriodi a\u0302\u2019i wraig Hannah Harris."}, {"text_idx": "#000020", "text": "Ac yntau\u2019n eisteddfodwr profiadol, yn saith oed enillodd Daniel Protheroe yr unawd alto (Abertawe) ac yn 18 oed arweiniodd Go\u0302r Ystradgynlais yn y Genedlaethol yn Llandeilo. Yn ystod y blynyddoedd rhwng 1900 a 1933, croesodd yr Iwerydd naw o weithiau i feirniadu mewn Eisteddfodau Cenedlaethol ac arweiniodd go\u0302r yr W\u0302yl pan fu\u2019r Genedlaethol yn Harlech ym 1933. Yn yr Unol Daleithiau, bu\u2019n beirniadu pob un o bum Eisteddfod Genedlaethol America, Eisteddfod Ryngwladol Pittsburgh a llawer o eisteddfodau rhanbarthol ar draws y wlad."}, {"text_idx": "#000021", "text": "Bu galw mawr am Protheroe ar draws y cyfandir fel arweinydd Cymanfaoedd Canu (byddai llawer o\u2019r rhain yn aml yn cynnwys cynulleidfaoedd o filoedd \u2013 yn Scranton ym 1926, bu rhagor na 6,000 o gantorion yn Arfdy\u2019r ddinas) ac yn eu plith Cymanfaoedd Canu Eisteddfodau Cenedlaethol America."}, {"text_idx": "#000024", "text": "Er ei fod yn byw y tu allan i Gymru am y rhan fwyaf o\u2019i oes, arddelodd Daniel Protheroe ei iaith gyntaf gydag angerdd ac fe\u2019i canmolid yn aml am ei allu i ysgrifennu a thraddodi beirniadaethau o lwyfan yr Eisteddfod Genedlaethol mewn Cymraeg gla\u0302n gloyw."}, {"text_idx": "#000025", "text": "Erbyn heddiw, fe ddichon ei fod yn cael ei gofio\u2019n bennaf am ei emynau. Yn deithiwr cyson, enwir llawer o\u2019i emynau mwyaf poblogaidd ar o\u0302l lleoedd, megis Milwaukee, Wilkesbarre a Cwmgi\u0308edd ac ar rai eraill ceir enwau fel Price, Hiraeth a Hannah. Llyfr emynau dwyieithog yn y Gymraeg a\u2019r Saesneg yw \u2018Ca\u0302n a Mawl\u2019 a olygwyd ganddo i Eglwys Methodistiaid Calfinaidd America."}, {"text_idx": "#000026", "text": "Bu farw Daniel Protheroe yn 1934 ac mae yntau a\u2019i wraig, Hannah, wedi\u2019u claddu yn Scranton, Pensylfania. Ar adeg ei farwolaeth, cynhaliwyd gwasanaethau a chyngherddau coffa arbennig ar draws cymunedau Cymreig America. Yng Nghymanfa Ganu\u2019r Eisteddfod Genedlaethol yng Nghastell-nedd y flwyddyn honno, canwyd ei emyn-do\u0302n Price er cof amdano."}, {"text_idx": "#000027", "text": "Daniel Protheroe was, in his day, one of the most important and popular Welsh musicians working in America and in Wales."}, {"text_idx": "#000028", "text": "At age nineteen, Daniel Protheroe emigrated from \u2018Yr Ystrad\u2019 and settled in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the then epicentre of Welsh-America. Unlike so many who went to Scranton, Daniel Protheroe did not become a miner, iron worker or labourer, but immediately established a successful career as an international musician \u2013 as a conductor, educator, adjudicator, singer, author, and most importantly, as a composer."}, {"text_idx": "#000031", "text": "While in Scranton, he founded and conducted the Cymmrodorion Choral Society with over two hundred and fifty Welsh choristers. The choir won the second prize at the International Eisteddfod of the Chicago World\u2019s Fair in 1893, and Daniel Protheroe was the first person in Scranton to stage and conduct an oratorio (Alexander\u2019s Feast by Handel) with an orchestra. It was in Scranton that he met and married his wife, Hannah Harris."}, {"text_idx": "#000032", "text": "An experienced \u2018eisteddfodwr\u2019, Daniel Protheroe won the alto solo at age seven (Swansea) and at 18 conducted the Ystradgynlais Choir at the National in Llandeilo. In the years between 1900 and 1933, he crossed the Atlantic nine times to adjudicate at National Eisteddfodau and conducted the Festival choir at the one in Harlech in 1933. In the USA, he adjudicated at all five American National Eisteddfodau, the Pittsburgh International Eisteddfod and many regionals across the country."}, {"text_idx": "#000033", "text": "Protheroe was much in demand across the Continent as a Cymanfa Ganu conductor and many of these frequently would involve congregations numbering in the thousands \u2013 in Scranton in 1926 there were more than 6000 singers at the city\u2019s Armoury. And also, for the National American Eisteddfod Cymanfaoedd Canu."}, {"text_idx": "#000034", "text": "Educator: He was a faculty member of the vocal department of the Sherwood Music School, and Director of the music department of the Chicago Training School, a Methodist institution for the training of missionaries and church workers."}, {"text_idx": "#000035", "text": "Pedagogy: He authored the Harmony Course, and a Choral Conducting course to address the needs of the growing number of choirs in the United States."}, {"text_idx": "#000036", "text": "Although he lived outside of Wales for most of his life, Daniel Protheroe passionately maintained his first language, often praised for his ability both to write and deliver adjudications from the \u2018llwyfan\u2019 of the National Eisteddfod in impeccable Welsh."}, {"text_idx": "#000037", "text": "Today, he is probably best remembered for his hymns. As a regular traveller, many of his most popular hymns are named for places, such as Milwaukee, Wilkesbarre, Cwmgiedd, and others like Price, Hiraeth and Hannah. \u2018Ca\u0302n a Mawl\u2019 is a bilingual Welsh-English hymnal that he edited for the Calvinistic Methodist Church of America."}, {"text_idx": "#000038", "text": "Daniel Protheroe died in Chicago in 1934, and both he and his wife, Hannah are buried in Scranton, Pennsylvania. At the time of his death, special remembrance services and concerts were held across the Welsh communities of America. At the National Eisteddfod Cymanfa Ganu in Neath that year, his hymn-tune, Price, was sung in his memory."}, {"text_idx": "#000042", "text": "Telerau ac Amodau / T&Cs"}]