Word: bach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last winter when Death took John Frederick Wolle, musical folk felt as though the passing of a great conductor meant the passing of a great institution. John Frederick Wolle founded the Bach Festivals in Bethlehem, Pa., kept them as potently alive as the steel industry which grew to spread its commercial smoke over practically everything else in Bethlehem. Farmers and later factory workers came to share "Mr. Fred's'' love for the music of Bach, for the great B Minor Mass whose choruses they learned to sing like professionals...
Last week, despite the gloomy predictions, the Moravian Trombone Choir climbed to the belfry of Lehigh University's Packer Memorial Chapel, announced the beginning of another Bach Festival. Bach enthusiasts had come from Vermont, Georgia, New York, Minneapolis. Again 240 Bethlehem natives reverently intoned the Mass's pleading Kyrie, the deeply moving Crucifixus, the climactic Et Resurrexit...
...program is as follows: Harvard Hymn Paine Ave Maria Vittoria Cavalier Song Stanford J'Entends le Monlin French Canadian Folk Song The Campbells are Coming Scotch Folk Song Jean, Joy of Man's Desiring Bach Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite Handel College Songs
With the Symphony for the last two springs "Doc" Davison's singers have given Bach's great B Minor Mass. With the Vassar Glee Club in Poughkeepsie this spring they made an. evening of Brahms's German Requiem. Unlike most college glee club concerts, it was not a prelude to dancing. This week the Glee Club, again with the Requiem, is to help Dr. Koussevitzky celebrate the centenary of Brahms's birth...
...concert in Cambridge, an oldtime Glee Club secretary hung on the conductor's lectern the "shingle" which used to call gleemen to rehearsal 60 years ago. Scholarly Dr. Richard Cabot told of the Club's history. Dr. Koussevitzky made a praiseful speech. The Club sang Bach, Handel, Palestrina and an ambitious "Dirge for Two Veterans" written in sultry, modernistic vein by British Composer Gustav Hoist who taught last year...