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...Governor; of a heart attack; at his farm home in Charlotte, Mich. In 1939 he aroused the righteous, got nationwide snickers by suspecting that rum-plying white-slavers were busy at the Governors' Conference in Albany. He called what he saw there and in New York City a "Belshazzar's Feast." The cadaverous Methodist crusader spent most of his Governor's term listening through his "pipeline to God," was a lifelong inveigher against the evils of tobacco, gambling, alcohol, dancing...
...program is as follows: Choruses from "The Yeomen of the Guard Sullivan Solo: H. A. Joes '43 "Glorious Apollo" Webbe Written for the Glee Club, London, 1790 Two Bacchanales From "Belshazzar" Handel From "La Belle Helene" Offenbach Four Love Songs "Das Herz tut mir aufspringen" Hassler "Madglein im Walde" Arranged by Dvorak "Bird in Air" Brahms "From you hills" Brahms "Prayer of Thanksgiving" Netherlands Folksong
Among the Glee Club selections will be the Bacchanale from "Belshazzar" by Handel, "The Defense of Corinth" by Elliot Carter '30, and "Tarheel Fantasy" by Melville Smith '20. The evening will end with the singing of "Fair Harvard...
Sibelius: Belshazzar's Feast (London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Robert Kajanus; Victor: 4 sides; $2.50). Incidental music to a play by Sibelius' friend Hjalmar Procopé, Finnish Minister to the U. S. Finnish Orientalism is queer, but pleasing...
Sibeliophiles may find impressive the incidental music to Belshazzar's Feast, recorded on Victor for the first time by Robert Kajanus and the London Philharmonic (M715). I find it intolerably labored and mediocre. A self-conscious stab at the sort of exotic orchestral coloring one finds in Rimsky-Korsakoff, Belshazzar's Feast purports to describe scenes at an eastern potentate's court. The first and last movements, "Oriental Procession" and "Khadra's Dance," are nothing but meaningless jumbles of sound, with no melodic interest whatsoever and very little success in evoking any imaginative picture. The middle two movements, "Night...