Word: bach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wellesley College Chapel, there will be a joint concert by the Wellesley College and Harvard University Orchestra both conducted by Malcolm H. Holmes '28. The assisting artist will be a Wallace Woodworth '24, conductor of the Harvard Glee Club, organist Mr. Woodworth will play numbers by Bach. Mosart, and Haudel, accompanied by the combined orchestra and concert, the third given by the Pierian Sodality this year, will be free and open to the public...
...program announced for the Brooklyn recital is as follows: "Personent Hodie" by Holst; Lassus' "Ipso Te Cogat Pietas"; "Miserere" by Allegri; Morely's "My Bonny Lass"; Handel's "Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite"; a choral from Cantata no. 41 by Bach; three "Love Songs" by Brahms; Holst's "A Dirgo For Two Veterans" and choruses from Sullivan's "Iolanthe...
...sincere. But his program was difficult for an audience which wanted to begin the season with music it knew well and loved. The Philharmonic engaged Klemperer to be "spokesman for the internationally modern composer." And true to his calling he played Schönberg's gilded transcription of Bach's E Flat Prelude and Fugue and Sibelius' stark Second Symphony...
...very own Leopold Stokowski. Slender and elegant as ever, he was bursting with energy. He had spent a quiet summer studying Persian music in the British Museum. But like any shrewd showman he first gave his subscribers just what they wanted: his own arrangement of Bach, a Beethoven symphony, a magnificent high-powered reading of Death and Transfiguration. Only flaw was the Prelude to Hans Pfitzner's long-winded Palestrina. But of that no one took much notice...
...Flagler became the campaign's commander, Marshall Field his gravely alert assistant. Together they underwrote the drive for $500,000. And Marshall Field became so interested in the Orchestra that he subscribed generously to the summer Stadium Concerts, went to many of them, gained a deeper understanding of Bach, Brahms, Beethoven...