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...evening in the spring of 1916, Archibald T. (Doc) Davison '06 was conducting a joint rehearsal of the Harvard glee Club and Radcliffe choral Society. After the two groups had finished singing Brahms' "Song of destiny" and the Bach motet, "I Wrestle and Pray," Davison triumphantly pulled open the stage curtains revealing Karl Mack, the awesome conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Muck, delighted with the performance, invited the groups to sing the pieces with the orchestra at the 1917 Pension Concert in Symphony Hall...
...sung with a professional symphony orchestra before that first concert, given April 1, 1917, but since then it has become almost commonplace, not only for the Harvard-Radcliffe chorus, but for other college singing groups as well. No other chorus, however, can match the long, continuous association between the Glee Club and Choral society and the Boston symphony. Tomorrow night's performance of Berlioz' Damnation of Faust in Carnegie Hall will be the 100th joint concert by the chorus and orchestra in a series dating back to that first concert...
...TIME story to his congregation. The Rev. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale of Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church wrote that he had used the story of Palmer's project in a sermon. A German lieder singer and a French basso profundo offered to do free recordings. The Cornell Glee Club, which had been on a holiday singing tour in Mexico, made the same offer...
...Freshman Glee Club will combine with the Smith College Freshman Choir and the Bach Society Orchestra of Cambridge in its first major concert tomorrow at 5 p.m. in the Emmanuel Church of Boston...
...kohn, a teaching fellow in Music, who has thus auspiciously introduced himself as a performer, will he seen as a composer at the end of this month when the glee Club introduces his new cantata...