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Professor John K. Paine achieved a great success at the recent Cincinnati May festival in the production of his new cantata, "A Song of Promise." Theodore Thomas says concerning this composition: "There is no living composer who can produce such a work, not even Rubenstein...
Professor Paine has composed a cantata for Mr. Woodbury's ode, "My Country," which is to be produced at the Cincinnati Musical Festival...
Professor John K. Paine is said to be writing a cantata for the musical festival at Cincinnati next year...
...evening the church music of the Flemish and Italian schools of the 15th and 16th centuries, and the music of the Troubadors, Popular Airs, Madrigals, etc., of the middle ages, will be the topics of the lecture. The remaining lectures will treat of the Opera, the Oratoric, and the Cantata from the 17th century to the present day; also instrumental music from the 16th century to the present...
...tragick cantata, "The Grasshopper," was the hit of the evening. As the first attempt of the Pierian and Glee Club together at concerted music it was full of interest and particularly creditable. The solos of Messrs. Howe, McCagg, Lilienthal, Thorndike and Easton were well given and well received. It was in this number, and in the Hymn to Odin and Image of the Rose, that the Glee Club made its best appearance. In its rendering of college songs the club was far from coming up to the standard of former years. The club is much too small to sing effectively...