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William Billings: American Psalms and Fuguing Tunes (The Madrigalists, Columbia: 6 sides; $2.75). One-eyed William Billings, Boston tanner and self-taught musician, wrote his "fuguing tunes" (not fugues but canons, like Three Blind Mice) for 18th-Century churchgoers. Long in disuse, Billings' choral works have been republished by Music Press Inc., a new Manhattan firm much of whose output is recorded by Columbia. Included in the album is Billings' chesty Chester, favorite of Revolutionary soldiers...
Roscoe Pound, University Professor, will lecture on "Christianity Western Law," Archibald T. Davidson '06, Professor of Choral Music, on Christianity and Music," and Kenneth J. Conant '15, professor of Archaeology, on "Christianity and Architecture." Christianity and the Social Order" will be discussed by Talcott Parsons, associate professor of Sociology, and "Christianity and Mental Health" by Gordon Allport, associate professor of Psychology...
...program will feature music by Bach, Bodenseatz, and Brahms. Dr. Woodworth will play several selections on the organ, in addition to leading the choral ensemble. The "Hallelujah Chorus" from Handel's Messiah" will be the concluding number...
...Memorial Church concerts will feature the Harvard University Choir and the Radcliffe Choral Society in a program of Christmas music, directed by G.W. Woodworth '24, professor of Music. Dean Willard L. Sperry will conduct the services, which will begin at 4:30 o'clock in the afternoon, and at 8:15 o'clock in the evening...
...fifth symphony, a thoughtful and tuneful glorification of the October Revolution, got him back on the bandwagon. Since then (1937) he has worked in the Leningrad Conservatory. The symphony which Philadelphia heard last week sounded as if Shostakovich's seat were secure-even though the symphony lacked a choral apotheosis of Lenin which the composer had originally planned. Unorthodox in symphonic form, its three movements were: slow, fast, faster. The last movement reminded one Philadelphia critic (Edwin H. Schloss of the Record) of "Comrade John Philip Sousa, in blouse and boots...