Word: chorals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Christmas Carol services were held on Tuesday afternoon and evening and Wednesday evening, December 19 and 20, and were even more successful than in former years. Under Dr. Davison's leadership the Chapel Choir and the Radcliffe Choral Society attained new heights above their usual excellent standard. All three services were very well attended, there being an attendance of almost 1200 on Wednesday evening...
...words of which were written by Walt Whitman, was the most noteworthy number of the evening. Dr. Davison's inclusion of brasses and drums in this piece was a stroke of genius. As an example of impressionistic music, it is not to be matched in the field of choral singing...
...Mahler festivals are held, and the composer's music is played everywhere to the accompaniment of extravagant applause. In this country Mr. Mengelberg gives the Mahler symphonies with great enthusiasm, while Mr. Bodansky, with his admirable " Friends of Music " organization, performs the composer's smaller orchestral and choral pieces with devoted artistry. It is difficult to evaluate the Mahler works without many hearings. On first impression, they are bad, shapeless, strident, vulgar, but after listening in boredom for half an hour you get a vague sense of the prodigious. Certainly you feel a tremendous earnestness. Perhaps...
...members of the University Glee Club who sang the choral parts of Liszt's "Faust Symphony" yesterday afternoon at the concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will repeat the performance this evening in Symphony Hall at 8.15 o'clock, Mr. Arthur Hackett, a tenor from the Metropolitan Opera Company of New York, will sing the solo parts...
...invitation of Mr. Pierre Monteux, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, 75 members of the University Glee Club will sing the Choral parts of Liszt's "Faust Symphony" at the regular concern of the Symphony Orchestra this afternoon. Arthur Hackett, a Tenor, from the Metropolitan Opera Company of New York, will sing the solo parts of the symphony...