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Miss Mary Phillips Webster gave a successful concert-lecture on "Music in England in Shakespere's Time" in the Fogg Lecture Room last evening for the benefit of the Radcliffe musical scholarship fund. The age of Queen Elizabeth was particularly a musical one, she said. The gayety of the times and the growth of the masque fostered the development of music, especially vocal music. The prominent composers of the time were John Benet, John Wilbye, Thomas Ford, Peter Phillips, Thomas Campion, and William Byrd. Selections from their compositions were very well received...
This evening at 8 o'clock in the Fogg Lecture Room, Miss Mary Phillips Webster will give a concert-lecture on "Music in England in Shakespeare's Time," for the benefit of the Radcliffe musical scholarship fund. Miss Webster will be assisted as follows: voices-Miss Edith E. Torrey, Miss Rosetta Key, Mrs. May Sleeper Ruggles, Mr. Paul Welsch, Mr. Alfred Denghausen; violins-Miss Goodwin, G. R. Jones '05, L. Mayer '05, viola-Mr. H. I. Tinkham; 'cello-Mr. Denghausen. An old English harpsichord will be used for solos and accompaniments...
Tomorrow evening, at 8 o'clock in the Fogg Lecture Room, Miss Mary Phillips Webster will give a concert-lecture on "Music in England in Shakespeare's Time," with the same program which was so much enjoyed at the Twentieth Century Club last November. She will be assisted by Miss Edith E. Torrey, Miss Rosetta Key, Mrs. May Sleeper Ruggles, Mr. Paul Welsch, Mr. Alfred Denghausen and a string quartet. A harpsichord will be used for solos and accompaniments...
...Dawson was born in Towcester, England, and received his education at Manchester College. In 1891 he visited America and lectured in several cities on literary and historical subjects. At present he is pastor of the Highbury. Quadrant Congregational Church, London and is preaching in this country at the invitation of the Congregational Churches. His reputation as a brilliant speaker has been confirmed this week by his sermons at the Park Street Church, Boston...
...CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. "The Inescapable Christ," Rev. W. J. Dawson, of London, England. Parlor, Phillips Brooks House...