Word: magnificat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bizet *"Bach Goes to Town" (A Fugue in Swing) Templeton *Ouverture Solennelle, "1812" Tchaikovsky "Scheherazade," Finale Rimsky-Korsakov Fantasy on Gershwin Melodies -- Miriam Winslow, Foster Fitz-Simons and Eusemble Warrene Bulkeley Jacqueline Magrath June MacLaren Mary Morse *"Little Women" (Theme and Variations) Tchaikovsky "City Faun" (Satirical Dance Morton Gould *Magnificat (Air for the G String) Bach "Caribbee" Milhaud *"Archangel" (Gymnopedio I) Satle "Frail Woman" (Excerpts from "Pour les Enfants") Tansman "Chromo: American Dance" (Harmonica Player from Alley Tunes) Guion *Polonaise Militaire Chopin *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Score Harvard Square...
...orchestra were given first U. S. hearings. The first was a smoldering, wrath-&-judgment Old-Testament oratorio, Watchman, What of the Night? by James Gutheim Heller, rabbi of Cincinnati's aged Plum Street Temple. A chorus of 600 children helped Soprano Helen Jepson sing the second: a complicated Magnificat by German-born Hermann Hans Wetzler, who once played the organ in Manhattan's Trinity Church...
During its extended concert tour last week the Glee Club sang a great deal of noteworthy music. But undoubtedly the high point of the trip, from a musical standpoint at least, was the joint program with Vassar. This opened with Bach's Magnificat, following which the Glee Club sang palestrina's Supplicationes and Psaume 121 sang Milhaud. Next came Vassar's rendition of Andre Caplet's Gloria in Excelsis Deo, and the two choruses joined again in O Vos Omnes by Vaughn Williams. For the climax of the concert E. Harold Gear conducted Zoltan Kodaly's beautiful Te Deum, written...
...Dignity, strength and power may be brought to the service if it closes with the noble strains of the 'Te Deum,' a confession of faith as well as an ascription of praise. It is also possible to have other lofty New Testament hymns such as the 'Magnificat' and the 'Gloria in Excelsis' sung by the entire congregation after some training. . . . The aim is not entertainment but worship: to teach hymns in which men hear the voice of the Eternal; hymns that awaken the spirit of 'wonder, love and praise'; that . . . drive...
...Club has given concerts at Hingham and at Milton Academy, at Smith College and at Pembroke College, at the Gardner Museum in Boston and at the Boston Harvard Club. In March the Club participated in the Bach Festival week, singing the Bach Mass in B minor, and the Magnificat. In April on the Spring trip the Club gave concerts in New York and at Princeton, as well as singing in two performances of Stavinski's "Oedipus Rex", given in the Metropolitan Opera House with the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra...