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...given earlier in the year. All of the songs are of the usual high standard adopted by the Club, but one group of three, is particularly noteworthy. The three songs contained therein are choral hymns from the Rig-Veda, being old Hindu melodies arranged by the English composer Holst. W. B. Wood 2g.b. will sing the solo in the Hymn to Manas...
Organ Prelude (a) "Sleepers, Wake" Karg-Elert (b) Pastoral Symphony Handel Salutation Invocation Chorale, "Come, Thou, O Come" Bach Carol, "Tours-Tours-Tours" Saboly Carol, "A Dream of Christmas" Holst Scripture Reading--Luke 2:1-20 Carol, "Good King Wenceslas" Carol, "Lo, How a Rose e'er Blooming" Praetorius Carol, "Christ is born of maiden fair" Congregational Hymn, "Adeste Fideles" J. Reading Carol, "Chanson joyeuse de Noel" Chorus, "Le Roi David" Honegger Carol, "Le Miracle de St. Nicholas" Chorus, "Let their celestial concerts all unite" (from "Sampson") Handel Benediction Organ Postlude "Hallelujah Chorus from "The Messiah" Handel
Thursday evening in Symphony Hall the Harvard Glee Club will give the last concert of its series of three. It will sing selections from Carissimi, Haendel, Beethoven, Brahms, Merikanto, Pierne and Holst. It will be assisted by Mme. Sundelius of the Metropolitan Opera who will sing airs and songs from Haendel, Benati, Schumann, Grieg, Korngold and Stravinsky...
This latter piece, "The Sea" might well bear for sub-title: "Much Ado about Nothing." Its composer, Mr. Frank Bridge, is supposedly representative of the Englishmen of the middle ground, Williams, Holst, and the rest. He has all the faults of a neutral, chief among them dullness. Brevity is not one of his virtues. As a conductor he is energetic; one would like to see (not hear) him conduct such a piece as "Ein Heldenleben...
...program follows: 1. Coronation March Svendsen 2. Overture to "Orpheus" Offenbach 3. Fantasia, "La Boheme" Puccini 4. Harvard Glee Club with Orchestra (a) A Dirge for Two Veterans Holst (b) Laudate Dominum 5. Excerpts from "The Meister-singers", Act III Wagner 6. Hymn to the Sun Rimsky-Korsakov 7. Second Hungarian Rhapsody Lisst 8. Harvard Glee Club (a) Fire, Fire, My Heart Morley (b) Russian Folk Songs Song of the Life Boat Men (Soloist J. E. Mitchell 1L.) Fireflies At Father's Door (c) Bedouin Song Arthur Foote 9. Ballet Suite, "Coppelia" Delibes 10. Serenade Pierne 11. Cruiser Harvard Strube