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...program consists of the following selections: "The Heavens Are Telling (The Creation)" by 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...
Last year, in a series of seven concerts, the Chardon String Quartet presented the complete cycle of Beethoven string quartet. This year their program will be varied-ranging from Haydn to Hindemith. The members of the quartet are: Norbert Lauga, first violin; Clarence Knudson, second violin; Jean Cauhape, viola; Yves Chardon, 'cello, They are all members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
...earnest hard-working choristers gave Westminster Choir its start. The conductor was Dr. John Finley Williamson, quiet son of a British clergyman, whose aim in life was to improve church music, make it more devotional, restore some of the artistic prestige it had in the days of Palestrina, Haydn, Bach. The first Westminster Choir (1920) was composed of factory workers and named for Dayton's Westminster Presbyterian Church where it sang Sundays. But John Williamson was not content with one group's singing, no matter how expert. He wanted proteges who, like himself, would be willing to devote...
...hilarious as Chicago's. Conductor Serge Koussevitzky and his men dressed up in 18th Century wigs and ruffles, played with candles lighting their music racks, disappeared one by one until only Koussevitzky was left at the spinet and on a screen flashed the lines: "You have heard Haydn's Farewell Symphony. May your orchestra never play its own." Surprise came when Koussevitzky announced that he had never really heard his own double-bass concerto. He went and sat in the audience while Ludwig Juht, one of the orchestra's bull-fiddlers, played it. For the Boston Symphony...
...Hadyn's "Concerto en Fa pour clavecin et orchestre" should be an especial delight. A small orchestra accompanies Mme. Roesgen-Champion in such a manner that the clavecin and the timbres of the woodwinds and strings blend together unusually well. There is no profundity in this bit of Haydn; even the andante is a very short and simple tune. "His Master's Voice" has also released a recording of Bach's Double Piano Concerto in C major, played by the well-known English piano-duoists, Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson. The playing of the first two movements was rather unimaginative...