Word: canon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George Phillips directed the Leverett Glee Club, Charles Berger the canon group, and Katherine Hack led the Wellesley girls. Martin Kalman-off accompanied the groups. The soloists were Ann Burnham and Charles Berger...
Each group sang three numbers, and the combined chorus sang three more. Of especial interest was the rarely heard Mozart canon, "Bed Is Cozy" performed by the small chorus of the Leverett Glee Club, and the first American performance of the cantata "In Windsor Forest" taken from the opera "Sir John in Love" by Vaughn Williams. This was sung by the combined voices...
Last week the Vatican Osservatore Romano pointed out that, "by the rights that God Himself conferred, which the Church grants to all her children without discrimination," the Church holds it her mission to sanctify marriages-including those between Catholics of different races -which are valid under canon law. The Osservatore revealed that before the Italian decrees were published "the august person of the Holy Father himself intervened directly with two paternal letters, one addressed to the head of the Government, the other to the King-Emperor." Last week Pius XI presumably had no reply from Mussolini. King Vittorio Emanuele, however...
...whole the concert was good. Just let Woody take those Radcliffe girls in hand and the result is astounding. Hallelulja Amen, a canon by Norris, went brilliantly, enunciation being practically as good as the Harvard Glee Club. The girls also sang acapella a madrigal by Weelkes with the skill and lightness of a few experienced singers. But Woody steals half the show when he expresses the sense of the music in his face. In the mellifluent parts of Shubert's Valsos Nobles, for instance, Woody licked his chops as if the girls were slipping him a Western over the piano...
...program will be: Chorale, "Freu'dich sehr, O meine Seele," by Bach; Concerto Grosso in B minor, Handel; Canon, "Hallelujah, Amen," Norris; Madrigal, "On the Plains, fairy trains," Weelkes; "Das Voeglein," Dvorak; Velse Nobles, Schubert; Martinslied, Hindemith; Chorus from "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Mendelssohn; Overture to "Le Rival Confidant," Gretry; Scherzo, Beethoven; and two choruses from Secular Cantatas, Bach...