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...Hell scene was noisy but unexciting. Bradford's passion for Marigold was expressed by a theme startlingly like "Limehouse Blues." The Puritan chorus had the richest music but it sang so often, intoned so many ''Amens" that at times the opera seemed more like a cantata, more suitable for a concert performance such as it received last spring in Ann Arbor (TIME...
...Fogg Art Museum will be the scene of a concert by the Bach Cantata Club this evening, with G. W. Woodworth '24 as conductor. The program offers selections from five composers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and includes Giovanni Gabrielli, Heinrich Schutz, and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina...
...Lanier (Winslow, Lanier & Co.), who in 19 years gave nearly $1,000,000 toward the support of the Society of the Friends of Music. Fortnight ago people perfunctorily approved a memorial concert to Mrs. Lanier in which Conductor Artur Bodanzky presented the Actus Tragicus, Bach's mourning cantata. But last week musical people were startled. Unless another patron is found, the Friends will be able to perform no more of the great, rare music for which they are famed...
...program is as follows: Concerto, from Cantata 142, Bach; Sinfonia, from Cantata 75, Pastorale, from Christmas Concerta, Corell; Dances from "Caprio Suite", Warlock; Concerto for Violin and Strings in E major, Bach. Soloist, Malcolm H. Holmes '28; Water music, minuet, bourree, air, hornpipe, Handel...
Radio, seven years ago scorned by most serious musicians, now like an important prima donna has music composed expressly for it. German Kurt Weill wrote the cantata Lindbergh's Flight for radio performance (TIME, April 13). Last week the first radio opera, Malpopita, was given in Berlin?the work of Composer Walter Goehr, a follower of Ultramodernists Franz Schrecker and Arnold Schonberg...