Word: choir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...verses to music. It was a labor of love for the adopted country he yearned to understand and be a part of. Last week Composer Foss proudly heard his first big cantata, The Prairie, performed in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall by four competent singers, the Westminster Choir and Artur Rodzinski's Philharmonic-Symphony. It was the glossiest performance his work ever...
Died. Caradoc Evans, sixtyish, Welsh novelist and playwright (Taffy), bitter critic of his own countrymen; of pneumonia; in Aberystwyth, Wales. He was frequently burned in effigy and denounced from Welsh pulpits for his anti-Welsh sentiments (example: "A Welsh choir's preliminary cough is often the most musical part of its performance"), was also so secretive that his own wife did not know his exact...
...Dutchman and borne nothing but girls ("It's something to do with Princess Juliana, I always think," said Mrs. Hoare). She won over the snooty servants and even conquered Oxonian Misogynist Professor Carton, who had hitherto believed that all bluestockings wore raincoats and sang in the Bach choir. After 300 such leisurely pages Author Thirkell ties up the loose ends in a neat bow, marries the right people to the right sort, saves the family mansion and forgives a few of the lower classes. To those who can't see the comedy for the snobbery, Author Thirkell remarks...
...Huddersfield Choir and Liverpool Philharmonic, conducted by the composer; Victor; 10 sides). Composer Walton's barbaric, explosive Old-Testament oratorio (words arranged by Osbert Sitwell) is probably the most important British score in a generation. Performance and recording: excellent...
Christmas services to be held in Memorial Church Monday and Tuesday will feature a program of Christmas music sung by the Church choir aided by the Harvard Glee Club and the Choral Society of Radcliffe College. G. Wallace Woodworth '24, associate professor of Music, who is choir master and organist for the Church, will direct the group...