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...pianoforte recital on Wednesday evening, August 2, at 8 o'clock in the Music Building. Josephine B. Bates, violinist, will assist. The program will consist of Sonata in F Major by Handel, Second Sonata, opus 18 by Faure, and Sonata in E Fist, opus 12, number 3 by Beethoven...
...runs a succession of solemn and joyful psalms, hymns and prayers, offers many a place for song where now no voice save that of the priest is raised. In austere, simple Gregorian chant the congregation may voice its faith more deeply and emotionally than any choir singing Bach or Beethoven. As the celebrant begins the Mass the people might intone a majestic Kyrie Eleison and then the Gloria which angels sang at Christ's birth. Just before the priest consecrates the Host there may be a full-voiced Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus Dominus Deus Sabaoth- "Holy, holy, holy Lord...
...Hymn Committee of the League of Nations Association has launched a contest for the writing of the best International Hymn to be sung to the first 16 bars of the "Ode to Joy" from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Prizes will be awarded to the authors of the best poems. The winning poem will be set to music and sung at a meeting of the League of Nations Association in Boston this year. The judges of the contest will be R. S. Hillyer '17, associate professor of English, and S. F. Damon '14, formerly assistant in English at Harvard...
...biography of the late great Hideyo Noguchi; his laboratory pets gave him the material for Lives (TIME, May 2, 1932). Swart, tousle-headed, he says: "I am not much to look at. ... I am an authority on the cockroach. I know considerable about the Japanese. I play Beethoven constantly and abominably. . . . You can find me in my laboratory from ten any morning till two the next, and every Sunday, and every holiday. ... I have delivered a baby. Once I gave a serious lecture to a hall full of lunatics. I know professors...
...play sonatas for the piano and violin which most musicians either neglect or use to exhibit their individual virtuosity. Last week Manhattan's Town Hall filled quickly and completely to hear the team play Brahms's A Major Sonata, Mozart's B Flat Sonata, and Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata (socalled because Beethoven dedicated it to Rodolphe Kreutzer, a French violinist who never took the trouble to play it). Throughout the program the two submerged their personalities to make music that was perfectly balanced, completely eloquent in itself...