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Following the intermission, we turned with pleasure to Brahms, Beethoven, and Bach. With the Chorus, we trembled before the Fates (Gesang der Parzen--Brahms) and felt the triumph of Revelation (Nun ist das Heil--Bach). We offer it as our opinion that in "Elegischer Gesang" (Beethoven) we heard the best and most delightful singing of the afternoon; here were best displayed those tricks of choral technique for which the choruses most diligently strive; here, too, was the most perfect balance between the chorus and orchestra...
...Glee Club and the Choral Society will give together "O Fons Bandusiae," a Horatian ode set to music by Randall Thompson '20, "John Brown's Song," by Delancy, the "Gesang der Parzen," from Opus 89 by Brahms, Beethoven's "Elegischer Gesang," from Opus 118, and "Nunist das Heil," from Bach's Cantata No. 50. The Glee Club alone will render "Two Choruses for Men's Voices," from Mozart's "Cantatas for the Freemasons," while Loefiller's "By the Waters of Babylon," will be sung by the Choral Society...
...joint concert to be given at Northampton on Saturday evening, the Harvard and Smith Glee Clubs will combine to sing "Elegischer Gesang" by Beethoven, "Swansea Town" by Holst and "Cum Sancto Spiritu" by Bach...
...writers, and the alumni have not yet expressed opinions as to the type of music now being sung. The cry is taken up once again, however, in a letter to the Alumni Bulletin written by C. E. Bacon '95, who likens the present Glee Club to a German Manner Gesang Verein devoting itself seriously to ambitious music. For this reason it is advocated that the Glee Club surrender its little to some other group of Harvard singers who will represent more closely the gay, gleesome choristers of the Nineties, with their frivolous glees of wine, women, and song...
...experiment in Mr. Whiting's concert, touching a field of music heretofore not included in the concerts. Mr. Whiting at the piano assisted by John Barclay, baritone, will present the following program: Invocazione d'Orifero Peri Ber la gloria d'adorar Bonocino Vergin, tutto amor Danza danza Durante Gesang Weyla's Wolf Der Tambour Allerseelen Strauss Ich trage meine, minne Zueigning Chanson Triste Duparc Lamento Colloque Sentimentale Debussy Ballade des femmes de Paris Claire Dragoons Old Irish The Light of the Moon The Next Market Day Savourneen Dheelish The Alarm