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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...
...numbers:- "Meye Have Bereaved", by Morales; "Drake's Drum", by Coleridge-Taylor; "Marching", by Brahms; and "Dirge for Two Veterans", by Holst. The songs for mixed voice are as follows: "The Heart That's Contented", "May No Rash Intruder", and "The Foolish Lover", by Halldel; "Antiphon", by Williams; and "Cantata No. 50", by Bach...
...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...