Word: apollo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...musine masses scurry tirelessly among the grasses, destroying grain, trees, any other vegetation they can get their teeth into. Then they vanish from the desolated fields as if they had sunk back again into the earth, which remains sieved with their burrows. Fear of their visitations is age-old: Apollo protected the ancients against them. In North Brabant, Holland, St Gertrude is prayed to as a protectress against mice...
...program is as follows: Choruses from "The Yeomen of the Guard Sullivan Solo: H. A. Joes '43 "Glorious Apollo" Webbe Written for the Glee Club, London, 1790 Two Bacchanales From "Belshazzar" Handel From "La Belle Helene" Offenbach Four Love Songs "Das Herz tut mir aufspringen" Hassler "Madglein im Walde" Arranged by Dvorak "Bird in Air" Brahms "From you hills" Brahms "Prayer of Thanksgiving" Netherlands Folksong
...Glorious Apollo...
...cellists). The most presentable of the professors acted as ushers, wore white gloves, carried long white wands. The main piece on the program was the "Grand Symphony in C Minor"-the Fifth by Herr van Beethoven, who had been dead for 15 years. That was in 1842, in the Apollo Rooms, on lower Broadway...
...program will be "Pereti Autem", by Mendelssohn; "Glorius Apollo," by Webbe; "Glee: To all you Ladies," by Holst; Brass Music from the tower of the Memorial Church played by members of the Pierian Sodality of 1808; "Turn Musik," by Gabrielli; Elegy, "Come Shepherds, we'll follow the hearse", by Arne: English folk song, "The Turtle Dove", arranged by Vaughan Williams; Two Choruses from Patience, by Sullivan; and "Harvard to the Harvard Team...