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...Meanwhile the Philharmonic Orchestra got through one of its two positively final farewell encore appearances under Mr. Mengelberg. The parting diet consisted of another performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (TIME, March 17), with a plangent, daringly lugubrious Bach cantata, Selig ist der Mann, as dessert...
...cantata by the choir under the leadership of Dr. A. T. Davison '06 was followed by three brief speeches by President Lowell, George Wigglesworth '74, President of the Board of Overseers, and Dean Briggs, speaking for the Fellows, the Overseers and the Faculties of the University...
...program is as follows: Choral Prelude, "Wir Glauben All' Bach Prelude to Cantata No. 106 Bach Prelude to Cantata No. 29 Bach Professor Davison Invocation. "To An Old Picture" Wolf Prayer Wolf "O had I Jubal's Lyre" Handel Mrs. Winternitz Pastorale Franck Bourree Handel Professor Davison Scripture Reading. Romance Debussy Recitative et Air de Lia ("L'Enfant Prodique") Debussy Mrs. Winternitz Scherzo (Second Symphony) Vierno Evening Harmonies Karg-Elert Finale in B-flat Franck Professor Davison
Moussorgsky's "Josua Navine", a spirited cantata, was sung altogether as well as anything all evening. Following it, a small group sang some charming Yiddish folk-songs which were as pleasing even to those who did not know the language as to those who did: Mrs. Gideon's expansive and magnetic personality, together with her unusually musical speaking voice, added much...
...Elizabeth Sheridan will sing three songs of the Italian masters and a cantata by Ariosti called "The Shipwreck", an amusing example of descriptive composition...