Word: concerte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tour will start on June 20 and conclude on July 10 Tanglewood. In its final concert the Glee Club will sing the Damnation of Faust with the Boston Symphony Orchestra accompanying under the direction of Charles Munch...
Thanks to the devoted efforts of Claudio Spies, Instructor in Music, a Harvard audience heard the most recent manifestations of Igor Stravinsky's art-last Sunday evening in a Sanders Theatre concert. An instrumental Septet (1953), the Cantata (1952), and Three Songs from Shakespeare (1953) comprised the program. The quality of performance throughout was superb with the exception of William Hess' tenor; and its strained quality was probably attributable to a cold. Both Mr. Hess and mezzo-soprano Eunice Alberts mastered vocal parts of exceptional difficulty. The modulations of mood and expressiveness which Miss Alberts achieved were striking. The precision...
...story goes in Christophe Colomb, the 25-year-old opera by Darius Milhaud, with a text by French Poet Paul Claudel. In Rome last week, the gigantic work got a full stage performance for the first time since its 1930 Berlin premiere (it has had concert performances in Manhattan and Paris, abridged productions in Cologne and Buenos Aires). Unfortunately, Rome's critical opera audience was neither wholly delighted musically nor enlightened historically...
...concert wil honor Archibald Davison '05, James Edward Ditson Professor of Music, who is retiring at the end of this year...
...half-hour program is the first of its kind to be held out of doors in ten years. The performance will be the last of the College year for the 60-piece concert band...