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Joining her for the first part of the recital was violinist David Hurwitz. After a nicely balanced performance of a Bach aria with obbligato, they presented Gustav Holst's Four Songs for Voice and Violin. Holst wrote these to please a friend who said she liked to sing as she fiddled, but on presenting them to her the composer was told, "I can only hum when I play." As long as two performers are necessary, Holst could have wished none better than Hurwitz and Miss Smith to present his simple, modal settings...
Previous awards under the fund, established by Mrs. H. A. Lamb in honor of Horatio Appleton Lamb '71, went to Georges Eneeco in 1929-30, Gustav Holst, 1931-32. Hugo Leichentritt, 1933-34, Bela Bartok, 1943. Aaron Copland, now Charles Eliot Norton Professor, in 1944, Otto Kinkeldey, 1946-47, and, Carl Weinrich...
...presenting a program which G. Wallace Woodworth described as "a grand cycle of moods," the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society adapted their voices to the "sacred joy" of Bach, the tense drama of Holst and Stravinsky, and the light "profane joy" of Lambert...
...Radcliffe chorus alone presented Gustav Holst's "Hecuba's Lament" with the contralto, Eunice Alberts, as soloist. Miss Alberts gave a flawless performance; her voice never lost the rich color heard in the sustained "Lo" which opens the work. Expressive phrasing endowed her cry to Priam with genuine tragedy. The highly dramatic character of the "Lament" was maintained throughout by the carefully controlled voices of the Radcliffe chorus...
...Hecuba's Lament," by Gustav Holst will be the featured work with Eunice Alberts singing the solo and Judith F. Haskell '51 taking the solo dance part...