Word: chorales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Glee Club tomorrow will join again with the Radcliffe Choral Society and the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a performance of the "Mass in B Minor" by J.S. Bach. The work will be given in two sections; the first commencing at 4.30 o'clock and the second at 8.30 o'clock...
...conjunction with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Radcliffe Choral Society, the Harvard Glee Club will make its second appearance in the Bach Festival in Symphony Ball at 8.30 o'clock tonight. The management of the Club also announced yesterday that 40 members of it will take part in a radio program to be broadcast by station WBZA Wednesday April 1, at 6.15 o'clock...
Tonight will mark the second occasion in the Festival, which is being given by the Boston Orchestra as the chief of its extraordinary programs offered in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of its founding, when the three organizations combine to present a choral composition by J.S. Bach. The "Magnificat" is the work to be performed tonight. In addition to this number, the program includes "Brand-enburg Concerto No.2", with solo violin, flute, oboe, and trumpet; "Suits for Orchestra No.1 in C Major", all by Bach. The final appearance of the Glee Club in the Festival will take place on Sunday...
Beyond the intrinsic musical value of the B Minor Mass, the performance of Bach's choral masterpiece tomorrow will have another significance. Sung by the combined choruses of Harvard and Radcliffe, the presentation of the Mass marks the complete emancipation of the college glee club from its traditional limitations. Following the escape from the realm of the football song and the English balled, college organizations have gradually attempted the singing of works of ever increasing magnitude, and now they have attained the level of the B. Minor Mass, perhaps the greatest choral music ever written. And it is owing...
...lies in the possibility of a series of "pop" concerts, where food could be served and the listeners would not be confined to uncomfortable theater seats. In addition the Pierian's scope could be increased if it were to unite occasionally with the Glee Club in the presentation of choral music...