Word: hassler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard began with a lively presentation of Hans Leo Hassler's "Cantate Domino." Their major effort was the "Quatre petites Prieres de Sainte Francois d'Assise," by Francis Poulenc, and they sang this difficult work masterfully. The closest the Crimson came to English folksongs was Richard Dering's "Cease thy affections to avoid her reproving." Although the Princeton boy in front of me couldn't resist snickering at the lyrics, the song was charming...
Elliot Forbes had obviously worked hard on dynamics for all the works on the program. In "Deutsches Magnificat," by Heinrich Schutz, he established a different mood for each phrase, and built up a gradual, carefully controlled crescendo for the piece's final cadence. Forbes made Hans Hassler's distressful, chromatic motet very convincing with sudden pianissimo phrases; the words were never blurred when the chorus sang softly...
...Hassler's Gratias Agimus Tibi, they showed that they were virtuosos in articulation; 130 of them could say "tea" and have it sound as if one person said it. But not until The Defense of Corinth did they combine these virtues with their extraordinary flexibility in dynamics, their impeccable intenation and their sense of humor...
Wiggins was elected to fill the term of Russell H. Hassler, Associate Dean of the Business School, who resigned this spring. Hassler left Harvard to take a job with a public utilities company in Hawaii...
...member of the Business faculty for more than 20 years, Lombard will succeed Russel H. Hassler, who is resigning to become an officer and director of the Hawaiian Electric Co., Ltd., in Honolulu...