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...program for the concert follows: Harvard Hymn Paine Cantate Domino Hassler Agnus Del Soloist, W. C. Atwater Faure Les Auges daus Noa Campagues Old French Der Gang aus Liebschen Brahms Salamaleikum Soloist, D. E. Terrill 21. Cornelius Chorus from "The Gondoliers" Sullivan
...English and Scotch folk songs: Mr. Alfred Holy, of the Symphony, will accompany with the harp in Brahms' "I Hear a Harp" and in Faure's "Requiem". The following students will render solos in the concert tomorrow evening: D. E. Terrell 2L., in "Salamaleikum"; W. C. Atwater '28, in "Agnus Dei"; C. W. Duhig '29, in "In Paradisum". Tickets for the concert may be purchased at the Harvard Cooperative Society, as well as at Symphony Hall...
...Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock, 120 members of the club will sing the following program at the Young People's Concert in Symphony Hall: Christmas Song Holst Le Miracle de Saint Nicholas French Folk Song Les Anges dans nos Campagnes French Folk Song Two Choruses from "Requiem" Faure Agnus Dei In Paradisum Cantate Domino Hasler O Sacrum Convivium Viadana Wassail Song English Folk Song Gently Johnny English Folk Song The Nightingale Weelkes The Campbells are Coming Scottish Folk Song La-Bas, Sur ces Montagnes French Canadian Folk Song Choruses from "The Yeomen of the Guard" Sullivan
Well might these admiring unorthodox critics be greeted with a smile from Ludwig van Beethoven, whose deaf ears rang with the Ninth Symphony for 25 years before he entrusted it to the world, who recreated the kettledrum rhythm of the Agnus Die so often that he wore holes in thick paper, who "stood on ground long ago trod by Aristotle who held that the highest art should appeal to the intellect through its perfection in form...
Father Mercier, in a low voice, said mass for his dying uncle. At the moment of the Agnus Dei, with its supplication to the Lamb of God, "who takest away the sins of the world," to give him peace, the dying one inclined his head as a token of peaceful leave of those around him. He tried to pronounce the benediction, but was too weak. His thin, transparent hand moved through the sign of the cross with effort. He was certain of death; had been refusing all medicines. Towards the last, attendants thought they heard him whisper " . . .rien...