Word: glees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society will participate this afternoon and tomorrow night with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis." These performances figure not only in Mr. Kousscvitsky's plan to celebrate his fifteenth anniversary here with a sort of strung out Beethoven festival, but also in his desire to secure a good recording of the work after last year's failure...
...harrowing experience. The vastness of the work removes it from ordinary life. Beethoven's method of worshipping God transcends all formal limits; to him the capability of his players and the capacity of his audience are both unimportant. Hence all the more honor is due the Glee Club, the Choral Society, and the Orchestra for reaching a new peak in their joint career...
Dwyer and Miss O'Brien were among the few spectators who shrieked with glee...
Aside from subscriptions to the Harvard Book for Tolerance, money will be raised by College and professional benefit performances. The Glee Club and the Dramatic society plan meetings in the near future at which such performances will be discussed...
...instance Vag's reflections, stimulated somewhat by the Radcliffe girls at a joint Glee Club rehearsal, the other night proved to be more painful than pleasant. It all began when he alone held over a note two beats that was staccato for the rest of the chorus. Woody looked up; Vag joined the others in looking around and leered scornfully at the innocent man sitting next to him, then resumed singing. This time he would pay attention to the music, he thought. What was he singing for if he kept thinking about other things? After all, the "Missa Solemnis...