Word: bach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conjunction with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Radcliffe Choral Society, the Harvard Glee Club will make its second appearance in the Bach Festival in Symphony Ball at 8.30 o'clock tonight. The management of the Club also announced yesterday that 40 members of it will take part in a radio program to be broadcast by station WBZA Wednesday April 1, at 6.15 o'clock...
March 24-29?Bach festival in conjunction with Boston Symphony Orchestra's soth anniversary celebration; at Symphony Hall, Boston...
Somewhat in the manner of Leopold Stokowski, who is constantly telling his audiences how to deport themselves. Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch last week suggested that people wear dark clothing for the performance of Bach's Passion of Our Lord According to St. Matthew given in Philadelphia with stage and choristers draped in black. Philadelphians take conductors' orders with remarkable grace. Most of them did as little Mr. Gabrilo-witsch asked. But one Ellen Winsor of Haverford objected, said that Gabrilo- witsch was out-churching the churches, that rather than waste time considering their raiment people would do better...
Beyond the intrinsic musical value of the B Minor Mass, the performance of Bach's choral masterpiece tomorrow will have another significance. Sung by the combined choruses of Harvard and Radcliffe, the presentation of the Mass marks the complete emancipation of the college glee club from its traditional limitations. Following the escape from the realm of the football song and the English balled, college organizations have gradually attempted the singing of works of ever increasing magnitude, and now they have attained the level of the B. Minor Mass, perhaps the greatest choral music ever written. And it is owing...
March 24-29-Bach festival in conjunction with Boston Symphony Orchestra's 50th anniversary celebration; at Symphony Hall, Boston...