Word: chorales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bach Book For Harriet Cohen" contains twelve transcriptions from organ and instrumental music by Bach for the piano. Each one is made by a different modern composer of high ability for that great Bach enthusiast, who appeared not long ago as soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The choral prelude and choral "Ach, bleth hei uns. Herr Jesu Christ," for instance is done by Vaughan Williams, whereas the Andante of the second Brandenburg Concerto is transcribed by Eugene Geosens. Care has been taken in all cases to keep as near the original harmony as possible. The book should be valuable...
...Wiener Sängerknaben 's U. S. tour (TIME, Nov. 14). There were 30-odd concerts still to come. Adolescent Wilhelm Herp had thus become a problem. Sending him home alone to Vienna would not do. He must sing no more, not only because he would spoil the choral effect but because he might hurt his changing voice...
...Glee Club, a questionnaire has been distributed amongst the members of these organizations, asking what music courses they are taking, what instruments they play, and with what degree of facility they play them, and if they have pianos, radios or phonographs in their rooms. Other questions ask what choral pieces they have benefited by and which pieces they have enjoyed the most...
Although the acoustics of the now Memorial chapel are quite satisfactory as far as preaching is concerned, they are entirely unsuited for the most perfect performance of unaccompanied choral pieces. The architects, claiming that it was impossible to adapt the acoustic properties to both music and speaking, chose to adapt them to speaking, and hardly left the University a chance to say no. In order to prevent the reverberation and echoes of the speaker's voice, the ceiling of the nave was finished in rough plaster, and a heavy carpet, lying on a three-quarter inch hemp padding, was laid...
...Monday and Tuesday evenings, December 12 and 13, the new Memorial church will be the scene of the annual concert of Christmas carols that is given by the University Choir and the Radcliffe Choral society for the benefit of the Cambridge visiting Nurses Association. A matinee concert will be given on one of the days in order to make possible the attendance of a larger audience...