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...program ranges from Bach to Handel to the barbershop idiom. To end the concert, both glee clubs take the stage for a joint medley. Otherwise the clubs will be featured separately with individual programs, a large part of which will be carried by soloists and small groups...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Singers Serenade Tonight | 11/4/1949 | See Source »

...young Robert Schumann, who was busily praising him from afar ("Hats off, gentlemen, a genius"), Chopin said, "I am constantly afraid that ... he will write something that will make me ridiculous forever." He complained, "Why did I not live when Bach and Mozart were living? I would burn all my trash if they considered it unworthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Immortality Has Begun | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...final effort of one voyage was a spontaneous performance of Bach's B Minor Mass by some vacationing members of the Harvard and Radcliffe Glee Clubs which had elements of sincerity if not harmony. On the same trip, a strange organization known as the Liverwurst and Yodelling Society appeared and kept the boat awake late into the night with loud and beery epics...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster jr., | Title: Thousands of US Students Migrate To Europe for Summer Study, Play | 10/13/1949 | See Source »

...secretly resort to "bennies" (benzedrine). Otherwise, they worry about their figures, and then at the Well, the campus soda fountain, they gorge themselves on Wellesley Specials (a brownie smothered in ice cream and hot fudge sauce). They play bebop records by the hour, but know more about Bach than any Wellesley generation before them. They are coldly practical about some things, but will gladly dress themselves up as toy dolls, rabbits or gypsies for annual Tree Day. They are fearful of seeming too girlish, but will happily make themselves look aged 13 running their annual hoop race. Wealthy girls pretend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Just Well Rounded | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...continuous noise that [his] sense of hearing is beginning to suffer from it." But, he wrote, "this does not mean that it is impossible to say new things . . . Beethoven renewed music without adding a new chord, a new rhythm or a new melody not already employed by Bach, Haydn and Mozart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Problem of Style | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

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