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...voices of the thirty four singers--equally divided among the sexes--are decidedly above the average, blend well together, and show a thorough knowledge of musical technique which only needs a little more polishing. Their repertoire covers the wide range from the informal Old English Round "The Peddlar" to Bach's formal choral "Sing Ye To The Lord." It is apparent that the singers are more at home in such folk-songs as the "Fum! Fum! Fum!" than in Brahms' "The Wall of Heaven"; but their ability to color and shade the simpler songs, to give these a real vitality...
...Palestrina The Three Kings Romeu The Wall of Heaven O Saviour Rend (Motet) Brahms II. Fum! Fum! Fum (Catalonian Folk-song) arranged by Schindler Australian Up-Country Song Percy Grainger Now is the Month of Maying Morley Wassail Song arranged by Vaughan Williams III. Sing Ye to the Lord Bach IV. Divendres Sant Nicolau The Island Rachmaninoff Irish Tune From County Derry Percy Grainger Hymn to Raphael the Divine Bossi...
Three compositions by Handel will be offered for the first time in this country with an orchestra: "May No Rash Intruder", "The Foolish Lover Squanders", and "The Heart That's Contented". Other numbers on the program are Brahm's "Liebeslieder and Neueliebeslieder", and Bach's "Now Shall the Grace...
...unfamiliar must he have appeared to his orchestra-members, in his brown baggy golf clothes instead of his usual impeccable black. For it was no rehearsal, even though the hushed silence which greeted him was only that of tiers upon tiers of vacant seats. Then with strains of Bach and Mozart he gave a program unique for him, his first before a microphone and unseen listeners, his first to be paid for by advertising (Philadelphia Storage Battery...
...silver-haired, florid, handsome.* In his Manhattan office he sits at a drawing board on a raised dais, gazes regally down on callers. He is a connoisseur of dress, food, coffee. At his home in Danbury, Conn. he makes his own electricity, tinkers with household machinery, plays Bach and Mozart on the phonograph. He also tells innumerable stories in dialect, including the Finnish...