Word: glees
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hindemith's ability is not confined to instrumental music. His "Das Neue Werk," now being prepared for performance by the Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society, is a masterpiece of contrapuntal writing with a purity of line that is a blessed relief after the saccharine style of much nineteenth century choral writing. Despite its bizarre harmonies, this composition reminds one in certain of its features of fifteenth and sixteenth century religious works...
...Glee Club's annual New York concert will be held this Sunday. Archibald T. Davison '06 will conduct the Club both during the New York concert and the Princeton concert which comes tomorrow, as George W. Woodworth '24, the regular leader, is sick...
during the spring the Glee Club plans to make a tour through the middle west not touching New York...
Wide-spread interest has been aroused in the musical world by the arrival in America of Mile. Nadia Boulanger, who is lecturing at Radcliffe during the second semester. And whether lecturing or directing the Glee Club and Radcliffe Choal Society, she makes music live with her lucid and sympathetic expositions...
These concerts will hold special interest as the first in which a woman has conducted the Boston Symphony. From what can be ascertained in the Glee Club rehearsals which Mlle. Boulanger has directed, she is not quite so skillful in the actual mechanics of conducting as she is brilliant in her verbal explanations of the effects she desires. Consequently there is a slight feeling of insecurity among the undergraduate singers which would probably not be felt by the members of a professional orchestra...