Word: cantatas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Most U. S. school children would probably find the Brecht-Weill opus perplexing. The pattern is complex: Lindbergh's Flight is a cantata for orchestra, chorus and soloists. Lindbergh, represented by a tenor, describes himself, his preparations, his emotions during the flight, in a pompous, swaggering manner quite unlike the popular U. S. idea of him. The chorus exhorts him as he starts, exalts him in a hymnlike way at the finish. During the flight a baritone radios all ships to watch out for him. A bass solo, with the smoothest music in the cantata, urges him to sleep...
...several works by Bach have been given in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Boston Orchestra and marked the climax of the symphony season. The Orchestra engaged the Glee Club and the Choral Society to share the burden of the choral work with the Bach Cantata Club. The Harvard and Radcliffe organizations furnished a chorus of nearly 300 voices. The singers were prepared by Dr. A.T. Davison '06 and G.W. Woodworth...
...last recital in the series of public organ recitals for the season of 1929-1930 will be given in Appleton Chapel at 5 o'clock this afternoon by Professor A. T. Davison '06, assisted by members of the Bach Cantata Club. G. W. Woodworth '24, conductor and M. H. Holmes '28, violinist...