Word: concert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hearing Strawinsky's Symphony of Psalms last week suggested again the rather controversial subject of setting sacred texts in orchestral-choral compositions for the concert hall. To those who consider religious texts exclusively churchly and liturgical this practice seems a violation of the true character of the words...
...subtle and restrained style of composers like Palestrina, Lassus, and Byrd captures this spirit of churchliness and reserved devoutness. But the less inhibited treatment of sacred texts which the tremendous resources and freedom of the concert hall fosters, though certainly less churchly, is not of necessity less pious...
Making its last appearance before the Christmas recess, the Glee Club will give a concert for the Harvard Women's Club in the Hotel Vendome next Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock...
With a special open-air concert scheduled in the Lowell House court-yard, following a tour of the Yard, the world-famous Don Cossack chorus makes its debut at the University today...
Arriving at 2:30 o'clock, the singers will be greeted by Jerome D. Greene '96, Secretary to the Corporation, before begining their tour. After the Lowell concert and a visit to the other Houses, they will board busses at 4 o'clock for a concert in Charlestown...