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...following selections will be sung together with Wellesley: "Qui Tollis" and "Cum Sancto," from the "Bach B Minor Mass"; "May no rash intruder," from Handel's "Solomon"; and "The Coronation Scene," from Moussorgsky's "Boris...
When George Frederic Handel wrote his opera Xerxes, he little knew that it would owe its fame not to the stage but to churches all over the world where organists swell out the peaceful first-act aria under the name of the Handel Largo. The Saxon composer wrote Xerxes as a comic opera, when he was depressed by Bankruptcy woes in London. To commemorate the 250th anniversary of Handel's birth, Xerxes was revived last week by the State Opera in Berlin and by the music department at the University of Chicago...
Berlin was only mildly amused by the haremish antics, wondered why in his many operas Handel had been so content to write in the set Italian mold. Berlin pointed to the genius of the man who had been able to compose an oratorio like the Messiah. But Chicago was more intent upon Xerxes because of a newcomer to opera-Author Thornton Niven Wilder, who had been persuaded to transcribe the archaic translation and to direct the production. He not only did that but also put himself in the chorus to sing a few notes. Wilder's part came...
Among the selections on the program are four Elizabethan madrigals by Woelkos and Byrd, two works by Bach, an old English folksong arranged by Edward T. Canby 1G, and a chorus from the Handel operetta, "Admeta...
About 60 men will sing in each concert but no programs for any of these engagements have been released. Bach's Mass in B Minor will be given by the Glee Club and the Choral Society on Sunday, May 5, and the same organizations will present Handel's "Solomon" on Tuesday, April 30. Both concerts will be given in Symphony Hall with the Boston Symphony Orchestra...