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With their organist, Robert T. Kelne '46, Stillmanned with a head cold, the Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society, and Memorial Church Choir have had to omit one number from their annual program of Christmas carols...
...ordinary carols were presented at Gardner Museum, in Boston, Sunday, and last night at Memorial Church in the Yard. They will be repeated this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock and this evening at 8:15. Included in the program are some Bach choral preludes, the Pastoral Symphony from Handel's Messlah, and old French, German, and English carols...
...addition to participation by members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and eminent solo artists, the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society, under the leadership of G. Wallace Wood-worth '24, will give a concert performance of "Penelope," Friday evening. This constitutes the first complete rendition of the opera in this country...
...worth in quality is for future generations to judge. But of its stimulating effect on quantity production there can be no doubt. Since 1939, recognized Soviet composers have written more than 66 symphonies, 46 operas, 22 ballets, 150 orchestral suites, fantasies and overtures, 40 cantatas, 400 smaller choral works and 150 quartets, quintets and other chamber music. Much of it is pretty uniform in style: restless, intensely energetic music, full of theatrical climaxes and aggressive rhythms, as cannily constructed, and at its worst about as emotionally appealing, as a linotype...
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 ("Choral") in D Minor (Philadelphia Orches tra, Eugene Ormandy conducting, with Stella Roman, Enid Szantho, Frederick Jagel, Nicola Moscona and the Westminster Choir, John Finley Williamson conducting; Columbia, 16 sides). The first U.S. recording in German of this colossus for orchestra and voice is many shades below Columbia's superlative prewar waxing by Felix Weingartner and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and State Opera Chorus. Performance: fair...