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Last week Lindsborg's chorus sang its 168th Messiah. Visitors from as far away as Mexico swelled the little Kansas town to two-and-a-half times its normal population. Besides the Messiah the Lindsborgers sang Bach's surging, intricate St. Matthew Passion. Twice a week for many weeks, the husky, hard-handed choristers had rehearsed with religious earnestness. Some drove from farms 50 miles away. Imported soloists from the East marveled at the sober fervor with which they chanted the complicated scores...
...Swedish-American family of five on a modest salary as professor of music at Lindsborg's Bethany College, has led all of Lindsborg's Messiahs since 1915. A simple, religious man, whose hobby is gardening, Dr. Brase sleeps little spends his nights mostly poring over scores by Bach and Handel. Says he: "There will never be time enough in this world or the next to plumb the depths of the great masterpieces they have given...
...program that has been arranged is a varied one. Hindemith's "Martins Lied" will open the concert, to be followed by "Kyrie Eleison" from Bach's Mass in B Minor. The joint singing will be closed with Beethoven's "Eulogy." After this, the Radcliffe Choral Society will end the concert with Allegri's "Miserere...
...Lowell House production of the opera-play, "King Arthur." And this is in spite of his unquestioned genius: of the simple and dignified charm of all his works, of the amazingly conceived and thrillingly beautiful harmonic progressions which could be surpassed only by those of J. S. Bach...
...program of tonight's concert will be as follows: Kyrie from the Mass in B Minor Johann Sebastian Bach Elegischer Gesang Ludwig Van Beethoven Finale "Canticle of the Sun" from San Franceso D'Assisi G. Francesco Malipiero Pour les Funerailles d'un Soldat Lili Boulanger Pie Jesu Lili Boulanger Psaume: Du Fond de l'Abime Lili Boulanger Psaume XXIV Lili Boulanger...