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...eighteenth century, where again he finds little beyond Bach, Handel, Rameau, Mozart, and Hayden. Having perhaps studied the nineteenth century, our student skips a hundred years, but faints away on the cold floor of the stacks when he finds no English composers except a little Vaughan Williams and Holst; none of the Italian, Malipiero; no scores of the Hungarians, Bela Bartok and Kodaly; no modern German or Austrian except Schoenberg; some Russians, but no Prokofleff. The final shock comes when he finds modern America represented solely by MacDowell and Foote. Upon regaining his senses, the poor student borrows what...
...outstanding performance last evening in Sanders Theatre, the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral, directed by G. Wallace Woodworth, roused a rather stodgy audience out of its lethargy by the sheer brilliance of several of the compositions, which ranged from Weelkes and Allegri to Holst and Harvard's Archibald T. Davison...
...Davison's anthem, "O Gladsome Light," was written in memory of Gustav Holst, who died last year, and was a personal friend of Dr. Davison, and through him, of the Harvard Glee Club. Somewhat reminiscent of Holst in its harmonic treatment, this anthem, sung by the Glee Club alone, built up an intensity of feeling which blazed out into a magnificent climax in the last verse...
Matching this piece was Walt Whitman's "Dirge for two Veterans" set to music by Holst, conducted by "Doc" with lightness and precision which it is his gift to draw from his singers without any sacrifice of emotional force...
...Holst was a visiting lecturer here in the winter of 1932 when he was made an honorary member of the Glee Club and the Choral Society. Tomorrow the Club will sing "O Gladsome Light," a piece composed by Davison, as a memorial to him. In addition, Holst's "Dirge for Two Veterans" will be sung under the direction of Dr. Davison accompanied by brass and drums from the Boston Symphony Orchestra...