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...been studying acting and stage production in London for the past year. Mrs. Herbert Harris, director of the Junior League Glee Club, Boston, will direct the choral score, and the voices will be divided by the Radcliffe Choral Society, New England Conservatory, Handel and Hayden Society, Bach Cantata, Cecilia Society, and Junior League Glee Club. The Pierian Sodality under the direction of Malcolm Holmes '28 will play the instrumental accompaniment...
During its extended concert tour last week the Glee Club sang a great deal of noteworthy music. But undoubtedly the high point of the trip, from a musical standpoint at least, was the joint program with Vassar. This opened with Bach's Magnificat, following which the Glee Club sang palestrina's Supplicationes and Psaume 121 sang Milhaud. Next came Vassar's rendition of Andre Caplet's Gloria in Excelsis Deo, and the two choruses joined again in O Vos Omnes by Vaughn Williams. For the climax of the concert E. Harold Gear conducted Zoltan Kodaly's beautiful Te Deum, written...
Listeners and critics have acclaimed Biggs's playing on the Bach organ as a revelation. Its pipes, unlike those of the modern organ, are all out in the open, visible to the audience. (Pipes in modern organs are, as a rule, enclosed behind shutters; those visible to the audience are often dummy pipes good only to look at.) The Bach facsimile requires from one-third t01/20th the wind pressure demanded by a modern organ, and has a correspondingly limpid quality of tone. Unlike the modern organ it cannot increase or diminish the volume of tone. The "swell" mechanism...
...Only difference between the Germanic Museum's organ and the 18th-Century organ in Weimar Castle played by Bach is that the former has electrical action controlling wind pressure and stop mechanism...
...honey-voiced Maxine Sullivan had been singing the song for months, Loch Lomond had already been swung to a fare-ye-well, and nobody had paid much attention. But Columbia press-agents worked the Detroit incident for all it was worth, delved into musicological tomes, emerged with the pronouncement: "Bach made fancy arrangements of hymn tunes of Luther. . . . Now people make a fuss when Stokowski makes arrangements of tunes by Bach...