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...Radcliffe Choral Society's singing of the delightfully naive, yet technically intricate madrigal, "The Nightingale," of Weelkes, and in the "Arkansas Traveler," more than made up for a rather drab and mechanical interpretation of a Gluck chorus from "Orpheus...
When Marie Antoinette was the Dauphine of France she took one of her rare determined stands on behalf of Composer Christoph Willibald Gluck. Gluck had been her singing master in Vienna and when he wanted to produce a new opera in Paris she saw that he had his way. Last week, when it was 163 years old, Gluck's Iphigénie en Aulide was given its U.S. première by the Philadelphia Orchestra in Philadelphia...
...music impressed Philadelphians as being astoundingly fresh and vital. Gluck borrowed his characters from Euripides but he gave them new life. His Iphigénie aroused real pity when she prepared to sacrifice herself to the demanding gods. Clytemnestra was a fury as she uttered her defiance. The warrior Achilles provided another stirring climax when he swore to fight the fate that seemed inevitable...
Ernest Newman started out to be an Indian Civil Servant and ended up by being Britain's foremost musical critic. When this London musicologist publishes a new biography, his fellow critics are inclined to accept his findings as sound, scholarly, vividly final. To his works on Gluck, Wolf, Richard Strauss, Elgar, Beethoven, Bach, Berlioz and Wagner, Ernest Newman, at 66, last week added his last word, on Franz Liszt...
...Haydn; "Miserere" by Allegri; "The Nightingale" by Weekes; Two Choruses from "L' Allegro" by Handel; "O Gladsome Light" by Archibald T. Davison '06, former conductor of the Glee Club; "O Light Everlasting" (Cantata 34) by Bach; "Dirge for Two Veterans" by Holst; From the Realm of Souls Departed" by Gluck; "Brennan on the Moor" a Somerset folk song; "Hunt the Wren" an Isle of Man folk song; "The Arkansaw Traveller" an American frontier song" "Spanish Ladies" as English folk song; and "Coronation Scene" from "Boris Godounov" by Moussorgsky...