Word: bach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Frederick Wolle 50 years ago had decided to go to college instead of becoming a drugstore clerk in his home town of Bethlehem, Pa., there probably never would have been founded the famed Bach Festival which was repeated for the 25th time in Bethlehem last week. Fred Wolle chose the drugstore job because he thought it would leave him more time for music. He had learned the rudiments of the organ by himself in the old Moravian Church. It was mostly on his drugstore earnings that he began formal lessons with blind David Duffield Wood of Philadelphia...
...spirit the Bach Festival in Bethlehem has stayed surprisingly the same as when Fred Wolle started it in 1900. Steel now possesses Bethlehem but Steelman Charles Michael Schwab helps support the Choir. Lehigh's Packer Memorial Church houses the performance because the Moravian church will no longer accommodate the crowds. But the Moravian Trombone Choir plays from the tower before each session, as it did in 1900 from the Moravian Church Tower, as its forerunners did when George Washington passed through the village. Last week's program did not differ materially from those of the past: cantatas were...
...Bach Festival...
During the latter part of this year the Club has given concerts at Hingham and at Milton Academy, at Smith College and at Pembroke College, at the Gardner Museum in Boston and at the Boston Harvard Club. In March the Club participated in the Bach Festival week, singing the Bach Mass in B minor, and the Magnificat. In April on the Spring trip the Club gave concerts in New York and at Princeton, as well as singing in two performances of Stavinski's "Oedipus Rex", given in the Metropolitan Opera House with the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra...
Tonight's program is as follows: Harvard Hymn Paine Turn Ye To Me Scotch Folk Song My Spirit Be Joyful Bach Ave Verum Byrd Salamaleikum Cornelius Chorus from the Sons of Shem Rubinstein Inimici Autem Lassus Coronation Scene from "Boris" Moussorgsky