Word: chorales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British. The jokes about France's War debt, the mental incompetence of voters, the uselessness of the Vice-Presidency,* which made Of Thee I Sing so amusing, are all reworked for Let 'em Eat Cake. They fall quite flat. So do George Gershwin's antiphonal choral numbers which have grown longer and more tedious' since he first used them in Strike Up the Band (1927). Brother Ira Gershwin's flair for writing silly repetitive lyrics no longer seems a sprightly burlesque of all lyric-writing. His lyrics often appear to be simply slovenly, lazy work...
...held in Sanders Theatre November 24, the night before the Yale football game. Quartet trials are to be held the first week in November, while in March or April the club will sing the Bach Mass in B-Minor, in conjunction with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Radcliffe Choral Society...
...provide practice in choral conducting for members of the course, "Singing in Schools and Communities" given by Dr. George W. Woodworth, instructor in Music, a chorus of men and women will be organized to meet every Wednesday evening, it was announced by Professor Henry W. Holmes, dean of the Graduate School of Education. Although open primarily to students in the School of Education, other members of the University and capable persons not connected with the University may apply to sing in the chorus...
...object of the organization of the chorus is to offer its members study and enjoyment of the best choral music as well as to provide an opportunity for practice in choral directing. So far as is known, no other University has organized a chorus of this type, and its purpose makes it unique in choral teaching...
Archibald T. Davison '05, Professor of Choral Music, will be on leave for the entire year. In his absence, his duties as Organist and Choirmaster of the University and Director of the Harvard Glee Club will be taken over by George W. Woodworth '24, Lecturer in Music, who has been his assistant for several years...