Word: duet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...program follows: Duet Second Sonata A. Tataranis and F. Dunning, Radcliffe Address--"Beethoven." Dr. Kellermann Songs--An die Geliebte Vertargenhelt Die Lerche", and "So Jemand sprich; Ich liebe Gott" M. Desmond, Radcliffe Song--"Die Himmel Rubmen en ewigen Elire", and "Seid umschlungen Millionen" A. H. Duhig '10. Violin Solo--Adigio from seventh Sonato Mrs. H. Bosshardt Trio a. Adagio Movement of Fourth Trio. b. Gavotte in F. major Grela Hedlund, violin; E. MacDonald, cello; Z. Bayentz, plano
Critics were unanimous in their praise of score and singers. Though the music insists upon an old Puritan hymn, it has no particular American characteristics, being essentially just melodious, good, pleasant music. The love duet of the first act is probably the best example of its kind in American Opera. Sung in English, the words were intelligibly projected by the singers; Charles Hackett, particularly, excelled in clarity of diction...
...Choruses here and there excelled the earlier Puccini's, but the score as a whole seemed thick, noisy, lacking in coherence, stretched this way and that to cover three acts for which there was insufficient substance. Not the old Puccini at all, it seemed, until the concluding love duet and finale which was not his but his friend's, Franco Alfano's, who wrote it after his death...
...concert at the Union. C. E. Henderson '28 was elected to the position. Henderson plays the piano for all the separate divisions of the clubs, and gives two specialty acts. One is an imitation of a piano in a cheap moving-picture theatre. The other is a piano duet with Wright, the retiring leader...
...these, the Gold Coast Orchestra of the Instrumental Clubs, and the Specialty Division, will put on their various acts. There are to be xylophone and violin solos by Harold Benfield 1G.B., and Albert Lind '29, respectively. J. H. Wright '28 and C. E. Henderson '28 will play a piano duet, and there will be selections by a Hawaiian quartet, made up of T. D. Howe '28, J. H. Monroe '27, L. V. Phelan '28, and E. M. Welton '26. Banjo specialties by L. V. Phelan '28, W. P. Pratt '28, and G. A. Norton '28, will also be featured...