Word: chorales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Combining with the Radcliffe Choral Society, the University Choir will sing at the services...
...Choir number 30 voices, while the Choral Society will use about 60 of its members for this concert. Archibald T. Davison, Professor of Choral Music, will open the Service with two organ preludes, The Prelude in G Minor by Bach, and Dandel's Pastoral Symphony, and will close with the Dallelujah Chorus. He will also direct the choirs...
...food. Beethoven still had the detachment to sit down and write the last great quartets. He died shaking his fist at a storm which was beating against his window. But Herriot. the preacher of peace, does not end his book there. He takes for a final text the choral ending to the Ninth Symphony, pleads, as did Beethoven, for a brotherhood...
...announce in a thick brogue, "Yes, I met Mr. Carnegie when he used to give out chil dren's feeds at Skibo," Piper Grant was bundled off by Carnegie Son-in-Law Roswell Miller to await jubilee celebrations on Nov. 25. That day Walter Damrosch will conduct a choral-orchestral program at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall; Secretary of State Hull will address a gathering in Washington's Pan American Union Building, built with Carnegie funds ; Pittsburgh will honor its onetime first citizen; more than 2,000 U. S. colleges, schools, libraries that Carnegie endowed will unveil...
...rain, danced for hunting, planting, warring, danced over their sick, danced over their dead. Dancing was a species of worship as it exhibited itself in ancient Egypt. With the great Greek tragedies dancing entered the theatre, developed until it followed a play's mood as surely as the choral chanting. Dancing in Greece was greatly respected for its fluent beauty, the healthful exercise it offered. But Rome preferred gaudy pageantry, chariot-racing, the bloody games of the Circus Maximus. Linked with these as the Empire's entertainment, dancing got a thoroughly bad name, incurred the enmity...