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...tone was much better and the meaning of each line came out with the expressiveness, characteristic of the English type of melody. The best, however, of the first half of the program was "Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence", and old French melody arranged for chorus by Gustav Holst. Paul Tibbetts '44, sang the baritone solo with admirable power and expression, despite the dissonant piano accompaniment...
...program will be "Pereti Autem", by Mendelssohn; "Glorius Apollo," by Webbe; "Glee: To all you Ladies," by Holst; Brass Music from the tower of the Memorial Church played by members of the Pierian Sodality of 1808; "Turn Musik," by Gabrielli; Elegy, "Come Shepherds, we'll follow the hearse", by Arne: English folk song, "The Turtle Dove", arranged by Vaughan Williams; Two Choruses from Patience, by Sullivan; and "Harvard to the Harvard Team...
...Sanders Theatre concert this year features on the first half of the program a collection of English elegaic music from different periods. Starting with a Byrd motet, there is music by Tallis, Dr. Arne, Francis Ireland, and Gustave Holst, and it is fascinating to observe how the elegaic motif is treated by each composer, always successfully, but in entirely different ways. The magnificent Byrd motet, Iustorum Animae, probably the finest music on the program, sums up in its short pages all the serenity and breadth of sixteenth-century classicism. With a bare economy of notes, it builds up by means...
Among the most interesting of the songs that are being rehearsed this year are the "Dirge For Two Veterans", by Holst; "Choeur de Soldats", from Johann Straus operetta "La Reine Indigo"; "Der Ganz am Liebchen", by Brahms; and the exciting opening scene from Verdi's "Othello." Familiar pieces such as several choruses from the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas "Patience" and "The Mikado", and "My Spirit Be Joyful" from Bach's 146 Cantate will also be performed...
...Hungarian March, "Rakoczy"Berlioz *Overture to "der Freischutz" Weber *Fugue a la Gigue Bach-Holst Austrian Peasant Dances Schonherr Wedding March-Schuhplattler-Hog Dance-Zwoaschritt *Suite from "Carmen" Bizet Aragonaise-Intermezzo-Gypsy Dance *Pavane for a Dead Infanta Bizet *Finale, Fourth Symphony Tchaikovsky Allegro con fuoco "Smoke Drift" Peggy Stuart Piano soloist: PEGGY STUART (First performance) *Entrance of the Little Fauns Pierne *First Slavonic Dance Dvorak