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...this concert it will join with a chorus of women from Duke University, the Harvard Glee Club, the Duke University Glee Club, and the State Teachers College Choir and Choral Socity in a mass performance of Handel's Messiah...
...joint concerts with groups from other colleges, the orchestra will perform five chorals, among them being DeBussy's. "Blessed Damosel" to be played with Sweet Briar College; Nagle's "Solitary Reaper"; "The Artisan," by Harriet Ware; and the "Messiah," by Handel...
...concerts at the Germanic Museum continues next Monday evening with a concert of harp and organ music, played by the eminent French harpist, Marcel Grandjany, E. Power Biggs at the organ, and the Fiedler Sinfonietta conducted by Arthur Fiedler. The program is an extraordinarily interesting one, including a Handel harp concerto, a new Poulenc organ concerto, and some harp and organ music by Grandjany himself...
...same name), and two chorale preludes. The Grandjany Aria for organ, harp and orchestra, and the Fantasic for harp and organ unaccompanied, are dedicated to Mrs. Coolidge, the sponsor of the concert, and while not dazzlingly modern, are typically French in their balance and delicacy of line. The Handel Harp Concerto is number six of Handel's organ concertos. It was written specifically for harp or organ, so that it is not merely a transcription, but a work composed by Handel with the harp actually in mind. How Handel treats the harp in this concerto, and how the harp compares...
...short reiterated little figures, (a trick used very successfully by Strawinsky in his recent symphony), And throughout the work there is a good deal of musical wisecracking--banal tunes, whizzing themes, sound effects, changes in mood and tempo, all contributing to a decidedly comic effect. It, and the Handel, Bach and Grandjany concertos; the organ, harp, string orchestra, and tympani, all point to one of the best concerts of the season...