Word: malcolm
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...well demonstrated by Wednesday's concert which included an original student work and an ancient suite by Purcell. The suite, a selection from "The Virtuous Wife," is as faithful a standby as its title would suggest, and was unearthed from a manuscript in the British Museum by Conductor Malcolm Holmes. Other little-known works brought to light in the past have been "The Blessed Damosel" and "Variation on 'Mary Had a Little Lamb,'" the last-named written especially for the Orchestra. But despite its penchant for straying off the beaten soundtrack, the Sodality has developed a reputation for artistic presentations...
...remainder of the concert concerned itself with the orchestra's other goal of presenting unusual music. Under Malcolm Holmes' direction, the orchestra gave first-rate performances of two old and quite unfortunately neglected works: a Purcell suite from "The Virtuous Wife" and a Corelli Concerto Grosso in D. Later in the evening the group played the seldom-heard Vaughan Williams "Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus'", a lovely piece for Harps and Strings which had Williams' customary lushness of orchestral sound. The only complaint to be registered about the evening in Sanders Theatre, as a matter of fact...
...Malcolm H. Holmes '28 will conduct the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra tonight at 8:30 o'clock in Sanders Theatre in a concert introducing "Variations for Piano and Orchestra," by Nicholas Van Slyck '45, winner of the sodality contest for original student compositions...
That suggestion sat ill on independent Newfoundland stomachs. Member Malcolm Hollett's gorge rose. He stood up, said, "If I make a speech I might lose my temper," and sat down. Member Gordon Higgins kept his temper and made a speech: people in other parts of the Empire might act "like rats leaving a sinking ship," but not in Newfoundland, the Empire cornerstone...
Conducted by Malcolm H. Holmes '28, dean of the New England Conservatory of Music, the Sodality will also perform works by Beethoven, Corelli, Purcell, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Vaughn Williams...