Word: bache
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...covered with iv, of soft autumn red, has for one of its chief uses recitals on the organ, which at this time of year seems to vibrate with the symphonic andante of deepening autumn. There this afternoon Mr. Woodworth will give the first of five recitals, playing several Bach compositions, including the choral prelude which was Bach's last week. It is hardly necessary to say that it is not as an chapel that Appleton exists for most Harvard men. Though offering non-sectarian services without compulsory attendance, and though well advertised to Freshmen in all their first notices, still...
...some honest historian should set himself to telling the story of the development of music in the U. S., no name will figure more prominently than that of Walter Damrosch. Today's sophisticates will differ perhaps. They will remember the Strauss of Mengelberg, the Debussy of Koussevitsky, the Bach of Stokowski, the Wagner of Toscanini; and in the fervor of appreciation of individual performances they will have forgotten the millions whose musical sense has been awakened by Damrosch. They will have forgotten that it was Damrosch who first introduced to the U. S. such composers as Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Rimsky...
Whatever else may come, Conductor Stokowski stepped up on the dais last for the time being. He gave them the same big music that he himself has taught them to demand-a Bach choral prelude orchestrated- by himself, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Sibelius' "Finlandia." He gave them a novelty-Roussel's Concerto, pleasant and unimportant. Philadelphians held their thumbs and waited. Stokowski is to be with them until late November, back again in late March. Able guest conductors are to be sandwiched in between- Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Bernardino Molinari, Sir Thomas Beecham, Clemens Krauss from Frankfurt...
...short program of music, drawn from Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin and Bach, will be given on the piano by David Boyden '32, after which refreshments will be in order. All men of the University are cordially invited...
...Fiedler March, "On the Mall" Goldman Overture to "Oberon" Weber Fantasia, "Madame Butterfly" Puccini Songs with Orchestra a. Pax et lux F. E. Dow '09 b. Victory Song W. N. Rose '12 c. Tuftonia's Days F. W. Hayes '16 Bacchanale from "Samson and Delilah" Saint-Saens Ave Maria Bach-Gounod Rhapsody in Blue Gershwin Songs with Orchestra a. An Old Time Celebration F. W. Newton '90 b. That Mascot P. B. Lewis '18 c. Dear Alma Mater L. R. Lewis '87 Selection, "Show Boat" Keru Walts, "Estudiantina" Waldteufel Stars and Stripes Forever Sousa