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Father Finn's musical specialty (the a cappella* choral music of the 16th Century) occupies the middle ground in the three great divisions of liturgical music. The others are: 1) the Gregorian Chant, pure, unharmonized 6th-Century melody, best heard in recent years from the Benedictine monks of Solesmes, France; 2) the "modern," which in liturgical circles includes all church music written since the beginning of the 18th Century - including Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Verdi. Since 1904, when Pope Pius X pronounced on the subject of sacred music in his famed encyclical Motu Proprio, the use of "modern" music...
Father Finn attributes his transcendent choral effects to the cajoling rather than the browbeating of his talent. His rehearsals are continuously good-humored. He is a genius at making singers relax. For martinet choirmasters Father Finn has nothing but contempt. Writes he, in his effulgent Hibernian prose: "Sometimes [these conductors] seem content to fabricate their figures in ice, hankering to muse in temperatures below zero, phrasing frozen notations with icicle-batons. From the arctics and antarctics which they explore, they bring a refrigeration that benumbs artistic sensibilities. Many an auditorium is converted into a 'thrilling region of thick-ribbed...
Besides singing at Pembroke College in Providence-on Saturday, and at Bryn Mawr on June 3, the Glee Club will sing at Harvard Night at the Boston Pops Concert on Monday, May 29. The Choral Society will have its fling at Radcliffe Night at Pops on Friday night...
Unless it is rained out, as was threatened last week, the Harvard Glee Club will give the last of its three Yard Concerts on the steps of Widener Library at 7 o'clock this evening. The concert will be given jointly with the Radcliffe Choral Society...
Future plans for the Glee Club include a concert at Pembroke College in Providence on May 27, and another at Bryn Mawr College on June 3. These are in addition to the third of the Yard Concerts, which will be given next Tuesday evening together with the Radcliffe Choral Society...