Word: hymns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Class Day plans, including the announcement of the opening of competitions for Class Day ticket designs and for words for the Baccalaureate Hymn, were made public yesterday by Madison Sayles '27, Chairman of the 1927 Class Day Committee...
Last week President Wark got up to talk in chapel. From heads, reverently bowed, from mouths buried in hymn books, veiled in handkerchiefs, courteously concealed by immobility and cupped fingers, rose a sound. "H-s-s-ssss." Dr. Wark paid no attention. Ear- lier in the morning a janitor had cut down a straw effigy, bearing a distant resemblance to Dr. Wark, from the bough of a campus tree...
Critics were unanimous in their praise of score and singers. Though the music insists upon an old Puritan hymn, it has no particular American characteristics, being essentially just melodious, good, pleasant music. The love duet of the first act is probably the best example of its kind in American Opera. Sung in English, the words were intelligibly projected by the singers; Charles Hackett, particularly, excelled in clarity of diction...
...major Bach b Pastoral Symphony from The Messiah Handel Choral: "O my Deir Hert" Bach Carol: "Christmas Song" Holst Carol: "When He was born" Neapolitan Melody Carol: "The First Noel" Traditional Carol: "Bring a Torah Jeanette, Isabella" French Melody Carol: "Christ Is Born of Maiden Fair" Gauntlett Congregational Hymn: "Adeste Fideles" Reading Carol: "Le Miracle de St. Nicolas" Lorraine Melody Carol: "Les Anges dans Nes Campagnes" Old French Melody Chorus: "How Beautiful are the Feet" from The Messiah Handel Organ Postlude: Halleujah Chorus, from The Messiah Handel
...improved upon. Two or three numbers demand particular mention. One of the most beautiful is a choral by Bach with a flute obbligato, a lonely little miniature of delicately etched tone which rises, swells and is gone like a breath of increase. Immediately after it comes in old hymn by Vittorio. "Ovos Ommes," which, with its long singing, phrases and fire crescendos seems to each among the dim aisles and die softly away in the clowdy depths of the cathedral which it conjures up before the listener...