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Tomorrow night will be the first time the College has seen its Glee Club this term. Included in the program are choruses from Gilbert and Sullivan's "Patience," a group of American and British folk songs, a Bach cantata, and a performance of the "Tarantella," conducted by composer Professor Randall Thompson...
This first home appearance of the Glee Club will include a performance of the "Tarantella," conducted by Professor Randall Thompson '20, the composer. Other items on the Crimson program will include a Bach cantata, choruses from Gilbert and Sullivan's "Patience," and a group of American and British folk songs...
...filed into the University of New Mexico's Carlisle Gymnasium to hear the Albuquerque Civic Symphony and a men's chorus give the world premiere of one of Composer Schoenberg's infrequent new works. Inspiration had "called upon" him suddenly one day; the result was a cantata called A Survivor from Warsaw...
...heard a story ("partly true") of a group of Jews, marked to die in a Nazi gas chamber, who, with their powerful singing of the Shema Jisroel (Hear, 0 Israel), had unnerved, then frenzied, their executioners into bludgeoning them to death. Schoenberg fashioned a text for a cantata, with a sole survivor as narrator, then poured out the music in three weeks ("Oh, yes, I compose very fast...
...Postoffice. The Moscow festivities were the windup of a month-long celebration of Komsomol accomplishments in which praise and exhortation were about equally mixed. Aram Khachaturian's young son Karen, a fledgling composer himself, published a cantata, Youth! Live Long and Blossom! Celebrating in their own way, members of the Chkalov Air Club made a record parachute jump without oxygen equipment, from 21,325 feet...