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...Beta Kappa honor fraternity was established at Harvard in 1781, so the meeting this year will partake of the nature of a one hundred fiftieth reunion. However, the official sesquicentennial birthday party will take place on December 4 or 5, the actual anniversary of the founding. The Harvard chapter is the third oldest in the date of establishment, the William and Mary and Yale chapters having slightly anteceded...
This will be the second presentation of the Mass and will be the last offering in the Bach Festival given by the Boston Orchestra under the direction of Dr. Koussevitzky. The performances of several works by Bach have been given in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Boston Orchestra and marked the climax of the symphony season. The Orchestra engaged the Glee Club and the Choral Society to share the burden of the choral work with the Bach Cantata Club. The Harvard and Radcliffe organizations furnished a chorus of nearly 300 voices. The singers were prepared...
Tonight will mark the second occasion in the Festival, which is being given by the Boston Orchestra as the chief of its extraordinary programs offered in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of its founding, when the three organizations combine to present a choral composition by J.S. Bach. The "Magnificat" is the work to be performed tonight. In addition to this number, the program includes "Brand-enburg Concerto No.2", with solo violin, flute, oboe, and trumpet; "Suits for Orchestra No.1 in C Major", all by Bach. The final appearance of the Glee Club in the Festival will take place on Sunday...
Earth's Curve. Exhibited to the Cleveland scientists by Charles Edward Kenneth Mees, director of research of Eastman Kodak Co., was the first photograph ever taken showing the earth's curvature. Snapped in one-fiftieth of a second from an airplane in South America by Captain Albert W. Stevens, U. S. Army photographer, the picture shows a stretch of 300 miles of pampas beyond which rise the Andes. The distant horizon line of the pampas is curved slightly downward at one end. The picture was taken on film made sensitive to red and infra-red rays (not scattered...
...Edward B. Hill of the Harvard music faculty will be the feature of the Symphony Hall programs this Friday and Saturday. The Harvard-Radcliffe chorus will assist in this poem which was written particularly for the fiftieth anniversary of the orchestra...