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...years." The student is led to a more enlightened attitude toward the "rules" by such wise statements as the following: "the so-called rules of harmony represent what is done by all and hence might be termed the platitude of music. If we speak of rules being broken by Bach or Beethoven, we are strengthening the popular misconception that the rules were made for composers to follow, whereas the process is just the opposite...
...Glee Club and the Choral Society will give together "O Fons Bandusiae," a Horatian ode set to music by Randall Thompson '20, "John Brown's Song," by Delancy, the "Gesang der Parzen," from Opus 89 by Brahms, Beethoven's "Elegischer Gesang," from Opus 118, and "Nunist das Heil," from Bach's Cantata No. 50. The Glee Club alone will render "Two Choruses for Men's Voices," from Mozart's "Cantatas for the Freemasons," while Loefiller's "By the Waters of Babylon," will be sung by the Choral Society...
...Champion in such a manner that the clavecin and the timbres of the woodwinds and strings blend together unusually well. There is no profundity in this bit of Haydn; even the andante is a very short and simple tune. "His Master's Voice" has also released a recording of Bach's Double Piano Concerto in C major, played by the well-known English piano-duoists, Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson. The playing of the first two movements was rather unimaginative Bach, but a vigorous Presto, like of the Italian, Concerto, brought about rejuvenation by its own irresistible nature...
...seventh Cambridge concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra was dedicated to the memory of the late President Charles William Eliot, the father of these local concerts. For this occasion an orthodox programme of Bach, Beethoven, and Schubert, President Eliot's favorite composers, was played. Again we enjoyed the invigorating Third Brandenburg Concerto, a favorite of all musicians and music-lovers. If we should desire to quibble, we might suggest a bit quicker tempo for the last movement, but let it suffice to say that Father Bach himself could hardly have given a more full-blooded and flowing performance. The Unfinished...
...Serge Koussevitzky, director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society will sing the Bach B-Minor Mass together in the largest concert of the year at Symphony Hall tomorrow. The Mass will be sung by 170 members of the Glee Club and 130 members of the Choral Society, and they will be accompanied by 60 pieces of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...