Word: elgar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...children's chorus of 300 thin but adeptly trained voices procured from the local free schools, several famed singers, participated. Large and earnest audiences turned out for the proceedings. On the opening day, the assemblage (some 4,000) rose and sang America. After this rousing start, Sir Edward Elgar's Dream of Gerontius was performed with John McCormack as Gerontius. The famed Irish tenor, in a role that called for a more robust voice than his, sang creditably. On the second day, with the chorus augmented by 150 songsters from the parochial schools, was given Bach...
...Edward Elgar, composer of Pomp and Circumstance (as red-coated a British tune as Sousa's Stars and Stripes is true-blue American), has been created "Master of the King's Music," by special and personal appointment of H. M. King George. In this office he succeeds Sir Walter...
...Elgar was born in 1857, knighted in 1904, received the Order of Merit in 1911 and the degree of Doctor of Music from Yale in 1905. He wrote a fine "Coronation Ode" on the occasion of the accession of Edward VII, and two huge oratorios, The Dream of Gerontius, after a poem by Cardinal Newman, and The Apostles. His symphonies and concertos are very popular with both English and U. S. conductors...
...complete program follows: 1. Pomp and Circumstance Elgar 2. Overture to "Pique Dame" Suppe 3. Fantasia, "11 Trovatore" Verdi 4. Songs by Freshman Glee Club Prayer of Thanksgiving Kremser Winter Song Bullard O Susannah Foster 5. Danse Macabre Saint-Saens 6. Deep River Burieigh-Jacchia 7. The Ride of the Valkyries Wagner 8. Songs by Freshman Glee Club: Australia Arr. by Hancock Ten Thousand Men of Harvard Murray Football Songs Arr. by Childe 9. Selection, "Stepping Stones" Kern 10. Waltx. "La Barcarolle" Waldteuful 11. "Up the Street" Morse Fair Harvard
...asking His Majesty to add one or two women to the membership, which at present includes Field Marshal Lord French, Field Marshal Lord Haig; Admirals of the Fleet Lord Beatty, Sir Edward H. Seymour, Lord Jellicoe; Lords Balfour, Haldane, ex-Premier Lloyd George, Sir James Barrie, Sir Edward Elgar, Sir Archibald Geikie, Thomas Hardy, Sir George Trevelyan, Sir J. J. Thomson...