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...plans to hold a series of monthly sight-reading performances, which all members of the University who play orchestral instruments will be welcome to join. The first of these meetings will be held at the Music Building on Thursday, November 14, at 8 o'clock. The program will be Beethoven's "Coriolanus Overture," the Nocturne from "Midsummer Night's Dream" by Mendelssohn, and the Fifth Symphony by Beethoven. Complete instrumentation will be available. Future sight-reading programs are also being considered at which original compositions and orchestral arrangements by members of the orchestration classes will be performed...
Seven Harvard students from the division of Music have been chosen to serve as ushers at the series of Beethoven quartet concerts which the Chardon String Quartet will give this year in Brattle Hall. These men include: Malcolm C. Choate '34; Edward T. Clapp 3T; Spartaco V. Monello 1G.; John R. Johnston '34; George H. L. Smith '34; Charles S. Spalding 1G.; and Richard Valente 1G. The first concert in this series will be held tonight at 8.30 o'clock...
...death of Brahms, witnessed only by his housekeeper, has never before been described. Wagner was working at his desk when his death stroke came. Beethoven died in a thunderstorm shaking his great fist at the elements. Brahms's housekeeper, feeling that a man's death should be in keeping with his accomplishments, never spoke of the passing of Brahms until rangy, likeable Author Schauffler came along. For him she described the dying Brahms whose last words-"Ja, das ist schön"-concerned some wine that a friend had sent in. At the end. she said. Brahms could...
...series of chamber music concerts by the Chardon String Quartet will be given in Brattle Hall on seven Thursday evenings, commencing November 9. The concerts, which are under the auspices of the Longy School of Music, will complete a cycle, in chronological order, of the seventeen string quartets of Beethoven...
...members are: Alphonse Onnou, Laurent Halleux, Germain Prevost and Robert Maas. They will be assisted by Miss Olga Averino, soprano. The programs are as follows: Monday Quartet F major Op. 135 Beethoven Quartet No. 5, D minor Chadwick Quartet C minor, Op. 51 No. 1 Brahms Wednesday Quartet D major Franck Quartet Carpenter Quartet G minor Op. 10 Debussy Friday Quartet No 2 F sharp minor Schonberg Three Variations on a Theme C minor Harris Quartet No. 3, Op. 22 Hindemith