Word: cantatas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Woodworth '24 will conduct the concert. Dr. Davison will lead in a group of three songs by Handel, performed for the first time with orchestra in the United States; six "Liebeslieder" and "Neue Liebeslieder", by Brahms, to be sung by a special mixed chorus of 50; and "Cantata Number 50", for double chorus and orchestra, by Bach. Woodworth will direct "Antiphon Number Five from Five Mystical Songs", by Vaughan Williams, and the "Hymn of Jesus", composed by Gustav Holst. The latter work is being given its first public performance in Boston...
...special chorus of 50 will sing six "Liebeslieder' and "Neuesliebeslieder" by Brahms. The program also includes "Antiphon Number Five from Five Mystical Songs" composed by R. Vaughan Williams, and concludes with "Cantata Number 50", for double chorus and orchestra, by Bach...
...connection with the appearance of the Society in Boston, the Treasure Room in Widener is displaying manuscripts of early English music. One composition, a publication of 1593, is called "The Seventh Day--A Cantata", based on "Paradise Lost". Some love songs of 1688 bearing the dedication "to her Grace the Duchess of Queensberry", are also being shown. This exhibit will continue throughout the stay of the English Folk Dance Society in Boston...
Spartanburg, S. C., May 14-15, 34th annual Music Festival at Converse College. Programs will include Mendelssohn's cantata, Walpurgis Nacht. Soloists: Georges Barrere, Louise Lerch, Dorothy Flexer, Gina Pinnera, Frederick Jagel...
Young Germany sees the U. S. singing. Composer Ernst Krenek chose a U. S. Negro jazzer for his Jonny Spielt Auf. Another modernist, Kurt Weill, has found inspiration for a new cantata in the Lindbergh flight. Written for the July Festival in Baden-Baden, a drowsy watering place in the Black Forest which has found itself the seat of radical musical experiment, the composer also intends The Lindbergh Flight for radio consumption. The cantata was publicly described last week for the first time...