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Decisions have been reached by the 1934 Class Day Committee as to the design of the supper ticket and the choice of the Baccalaureate Hymn to be used at the exercises this spring. They were assisted in the latter decision by G. W. Woodworth, Assistant Chorister. The facsimile drawn by Robert Berner '34, of Dorchester, was accepted for the ticket and is a black and white sketch of the Dunster House gate...
With a view of getting 5,000 full francs' worth of song, the Academy stipulated that the winning hymn must last from twelve to 15 minutes and be scored for four to eight mixed voices and a full orchestra. This remarkable paean will be sung in June at the Grand Festival of Bordeaux before no less a connoisseur than President Albert Lebrun...
...scores by his countrymen. But no criticism touches the Maestro so long as he feels that he is faithful to a composer's intention. Once he has made a decision nothing can budge him. He took a beating in Bologna three years ago rather than play the Fascist Hymn at what seemed to him an inappropriate occasion. No coaxing could get him to Bayreuth when Adolf Hitler discriminated against his fellow musicians who happened to be Jews (TIME. June 19). He took one of his stands last week when he refused to talk at his birthday party. Many...
Patriotic anthems have a way of making trouble for symphony conductors. Great Karl Muck was driven from Boston for not playing "The Star-Spangled Banner'' at a Wartime concert. Arturo Toscanini was beaten by Italian youths when he refused to play the Fascist Hymn in Bologna...
Charles Beecher (1815-1900) was the family musician, a hymn-writer and also a heretic...