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Nothing but duty could keep me in tonight writing this for the edification of those who would of grapefruit make their meal while shredded wheat their dappled waistcoats ill bedecks, for tonight, as they say in detective stories is the night? The night? Yes, the night when the Choral Society from up the line far past the Sargent portals toward the sun does its stuff, parades its pomp, sings, in fact, at the Pops. And to hug a pretzel while the Radcliffe Choral Society makes merry and out jockies Jacchia is something, or more. But duty is duty...
...newspapers coming home on the subway. I wasn't. It is an axiom that the most devilmaycare gesture allowed one now is to get arrested for drunken driving. And one can't buy a car on the pay from staying in nights writing this sort of thing while the Choral Society correlates...
Once selection a group of choral hymns from the Rig-Veda, is particularly noteworthy. These hymns are adaptations of old Hindu music, by the English composer Holst. The solo in one of them, the Hymn to Manas, will be sung by W. B. Wood 2G.B. Another group of interest is a collection of four folk songs, in one of which, a Scottish song called "Turn Ye to Me," E. B. Nichols '26 will sing the tenor solo...
...complete program is as follows: Creator alme siderum--Puer natus est nobis--Adoro to devotee Allegrl Miscrere Allegrl Sacerdotes Domini Byrd Cherubim Song Rachmaninov Chorus of Bacchantes, from "Philemon and Baucis" Gounod Canzonet and Ballet--I Go Before, My Darling Morley On the Plains, Fairy Trains Weelkes Choral Hymns from the Rig-Veda Hymn to Agni--Hymn to Indra--Hymn to Manas Holst Coronation Scene, from "Boris Godounov" Moussorgsky Four Folk Songs The Galway Piper Gute Nacht The reapers' Song Turn Ye to Me Drake's Drum Coleridge-Taylor Love Songs Brahms Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite from "Samson...
...Grand Opera Society in London. No liberties had been taken with the plot that Gounod chose from the first part of Goethe s tragedy. Mephistopheles made Faust live on, enticed him with promises of pleasures, with visions of fair Marguerite, restored him to youth. There were the same choral festivities with students, soldiers, peasants and burghers, the same stout Valentine, who dies in the attempt to avenge his sister's honor. Marguerite spun her stint, disported herself with jewels and flowers, repulsed Faust, then yielded. The prison scene was the same?a repentant maiden condemned for infanticide, the tortured offender...