Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last of Mr. Arthur Whiting's series of Expositions of Chamber Music for 1922-3 will be given this evening at 8.15 o'clock in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building. Mr. Whiting, at the pianoforte, will be assisted by Mr. John Barclay, baritone. Officers and students of the University will be admitted without charge, but the public may buy tickets to the gallery for $1 at Amee Brothers' Bookstore. The floor will not be open to women...
...last Symphony Hall concert of the Harvard Glee Club was a distinct success. For the second time Frieda Hempel was the assisting artist. Her selections, with the exception of an aria from "Der Freischutz", were purely romantic--full of sentiment, even sentimentality. Yet as sung by Miss Hempel these songs were ever a delight; especially so her rendering of the Swiss "Canari Jaloux", and a "Lullaby" by Humperdinck...
...Glee Club started the program with the 130th Psalm in memory of John Henry Berry '25, a member of the club who has just recently died. After a severe yet impressive beginning in the two pieces of old church music, the concert took on a distinctly modern tone--a radical change from Dr. Davison's usual course. Mr. Converse's "Laudate Dominum" was particularly striking in its vigor and tone, filled out as it was by trombones and horns. As for the "Deux Choeurs" by J. Guy Ropartz, they were remarkable only because they were dedicated to the Harvard Glee...
...This concert has not only added to the high standard of the Glee Club's work, but its memory should bring many expectantly to Symphony Hall next year for its annual series...
...Arthur Whiting's last exposition will be given next Monday evening at the Paine Concert Hall in the Music Building. Mr. Whiting will accompany on the piano Mr. John Barclay, baritone. The selections will be taken from Italian, French, German, and Irish composers of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries...