Word: beethovens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another innovation will come on April 1, when Dr. A. T. Davison '06 will devote the lecture hour to playing several works of Beethoven. This program has been arranged in connection with the present centennial of the great composer...
...Boston Herald of March 23, Mr. Philip Hale expends over five paragraphs, and much space in the Symphony program, in attempting to prove his contention that Beethoven's "Missa Solomnis" has little spiritual value after all. To Mr. Hale part of the Mass gives "an effect of infinite labor and vain endoavor and is not an uplifting of the hearer's soul." One almost expects him to say that the music might just as well have been written to the words of almost any Gerruan folk song...
...Beethoven" writes Mr. Hale, "was a Catholic by profession, he was brought up a catholic: dying, he welcomed the administration of the Sacrament, but during his life he was negligent in his religious duties...nor was he a man to be bound by ritual or creed." If this were true, it would seem strange that Beethoven spent four years on this stupendous musical composition which so clearly and so beautifully expressed the words of the Mass...
Ludwig van Beethoven really needs very little apology for having composed the "Missa Solemnis" and the denial of its spiritual inspiration smacks of more shallow pretext and sophistry...
...program follows: Duet Second Sonata A. Tataranis and F. Dunning, Radcliffe Address--"Beethoven." Dr. Kellermann Songs--An die Geliebte Vertargenhelt Die Lerche", and "So Jemand sprich; Ich liebe Gott" M. Desmond, Radcliffe Song--"Die Himmel Rubmen en ewigen Elire", and "Seid umschlungen Millionen" A. H. Duhig '10. Violin Solo--Adigio from seventh Sonato Mrs. H. Bosshardt Trio a. Adagio Movement of Fourth Trio. b. Gavotte in F. major Grela Hedlund, violin; E. MacDonald, cello; Z. Bayentz, plano