Word: holst
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heav'nly Light Bach The Harvard Glee Club 2. Fantasia, F minor Chopin Prelude (Posthumous) Chopin Mazurka Chopin Etude Chopin Mlle Novaes 3. Adieu, Sweet Amarillis Wilbye Vieille Priere Bouddhique Boulanger Now is the Time of Christymas Bax (Flute-obligato by Georges Laurent) Choral Hymns from the Rig-Veda Holst Hymn to Manas--Hymn to Soma --To Agni The Harvard Glee Club 4. El Albaicin Albeniz Mephisto Valse Liszt Mlle, Novaes 5. Pirate Song Gilbert...
...program will be as follows: Adoramus Te, Palestrina Cherubic Hymn, Tschesnokov Break Forth, O Beauteous Heav'nly Light, Bach Fire, Fire, My Heart, Morley Vieille Priere Bouddhique, Boulanger Soloist, George Renwick '24. Adieu, Sweet Amarallis, Willdye Choral Hymns from the Rig-Veda, Holst Hymn to Manas Soloist, L. R. Ring 1G. Hymn to Soma To Agni Pirate Song, Gilbert Soloist, M. L. Brown '25. Russian Folk Songs Song of the Lifeboat Men Soloist, J. E. Mitchell 1L. Fireflies At Father's Door Drake's Drum, Coloridge-Taylor
...answer to innumerable proddings the publishers of Holst's "Planets" at last sent the parts thus enabling Mr. Monteux to fulfill a promise of long standing. Holst is an Englishman of Scandinavian extraction, and might have been expected, from the qualifications to be a loyal follower of Grieg. But he has thoroughly submerged any Scandinavian traits, not, however, to become English. His work is reminiscent of no other composer. In melody, in harmony, but most strikingly in orchestration, he is absolutely original. It is, moreover, an interesting, a powerful originality. Never except in the Glee Club's great song...
...orchestration,--rarely in the history of Symphony Hall has Mr. Fiedler been kept so busy at his celesta; novelty upon novelty appeared, not loud and startling, but only to the careful listener. Plainly Mr. Holst is not interested in strange noises per se but only as they contribute to the effect of the whole. So he used muted harp and chime in unison, in "Saturn--Bringer of Old Age" with marked success. A much talked of organ glissando proved hardly noticeable, and almost a complete dud. The orchestra has rarely received such an ovation as it did after this piece...