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...first time in history, one of the Houses is to give a serious musical entertainment. The House to establish the precedent is Leverett, which will present the "Coffee Cantata" by Bach, next Sunday evening, December 13 at 8:15 o'clock. The performance will be given in the Leverett House Common Room, and is free to the public...
...addition to fine old standbys which include the magnificence of a Bach cantata and the vigour of English sea chanties, there are to be sung two new compositions, one by Igor Markevitch, and the other by Randall Thompson '20. Markevitch is a young Russian now resident in Paris whose only vocal work, the "Cantate", is to be performed in part by the Glee Club. The other modernist, Randall Thompson, is a Harvard graduate and recent lecturer in these parts, whose latest composition, "The Peaceable Kingdom", in receiving its initial performance by the joint chorus on Tuesday evening...
...independent Community Church. While giving Dr. Holmes full marks for nobility of purpose, pragmatic spectators got a strong whiff of the parsonage in If This Be Treason's incorrigible unreality. Show folk credited the play with about as much dramatic savoir-faire as a Sunday School cantata. Even his most devoted parishioners could not find much novelty in Dr. Holmes's and Collaborator Lawrence's dialog. Retorts President Gordon (McKay Morns, the drama's best-looking bald man) to his Secretary of State, who has just called him a fool: "A fool? Perhaps. Perhaps the world...
Bach, "To Thee Alone Be Glory" (Cantata 41); Morley, My Bonny Lass; Brahms, Two Love Songs from Opus 65; Sullivan, Choruses from "Iolanthe" (second set); English Folk Song, Brennan On The Moor; Wagner, Chorale and Finale from "Die Meistersinger"; College Songs...
...program consists of the following selections: "The Heavens Are Telling (The Creation)" by Haydn; "Miserere" by Allegri; "The Nightingale" by Weekes; Two Choruses from "L' Allegro" by Handel; "O Gladsome Light" by Archibald T. Davison '06, former conductor of the Glee Club; "O Light Everlasting" (Cantata 34) by Bach; "Dirge for Two Veterans" by Holst; From the Realm of Souls Departed" by Gluck; "Brennan on the Moor" a Somerset folk song; "Hunt the Wren" an Isle of Man folk song; "The Arkansaw Traveller" an American frontier song" "Spanish Ladies" as English folk song; and "Coronation Scene" from "Boris Godounov...