Word: chorales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preparation for three major performances during the remainder of the week, the Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society are working earnestly under the direction of G. Wallace Woodworth, conductor of the two musical organizations...
Unique in the demonstration of unison speaking, the modern dance, and choral music by students, the meeting will be concluded with an address by Dr. Mildred H. McAfee, President of Wellesley, on "Art in the Liberal Arts College...
Various changes in the course of music generally have affected the instrumental groups in the last five years. First came the development of serious choral music in the New England schools, which, by rigorous training in choirs and glee clubs, have pointed their students toward the Harvard Glee Club rather than for the informal singing that the Instrumental Clubs provide. Currently, came the shift of taste from banjo and mandolin to violin, 'cello, flute, and the like, a shift which has prospered the Pierian Sodality, but has laid the banjo and mandolin clubs in the grave. Couple all this with...
...Glee Club, under the direction of Archibald T. Davison, prefessor of Choral Music, made a trip to France partly sponsored by the French Government and presented a concert on the Place D'Arey in Dijon. The singers received a very cordial greeting from the students and faculty there, and Dr. Davison was awarded the Academic Palm by the French Government
...Philadelphia Orchestra has always been famously friendly with Pianist-Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff. In 1920 it was the first U. S. organization to play his choral symphony The Bells. Blond-maned Leopold Stokowski used to hire Rachmaninoff often as guest soloist, liked to slap his back in public. In Philadelphia this season Stokowski led the orchestra through the world premiere of Rachmaninoff's Third Symphony, later took it to New York (TIME, Nov. 23, 1936). When, after 17 years absence. The Bells was again heard last week in Manhattan, the Philadelphia Orchestra, under new Conductor Eugene Ormandy, contrived its return...