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When you reported that I had identified "an obscure melody" as Mendelssohn's War March of the Priests [TIME, Feb. i], I must say I was flattered by the inference that my musical knowledge was so eclectic and vast. Dear me, the reason why I knew the name of that tune was because I had marched to it to get my high-school diploma and had for years confused it with Pomp and Circumstance. But once somebody called my attention to the error, and, thank heaven, I profited by the correction-or at least, Brooklyn's Norwegian Children...
...Radcliffe Choral Society and the Radcliffe Dance Group will jointly present a free public concert tonight of 8:30 in Sanders Theatre. In addition to works of Handel and Mendelssohn, compositions of recent Harvard alumni are programed...
Compared to the energetic work of the Harvard singers, the Princeton Glee Club made a rather poor showing. Mr. Weinrich has trained his singers inadequately in the fundamentals of choral style, and one shudders to think that the insipid solo group in Mendelssohn's Hunting Song represents the best voices at his disposal. In Schubert's Komm Heilger Geist the tenors used falsetto indiscriminately to reach notes beyond their range. Mr. Weinrich continued with Four Peasant Songs by Stravinsky, a work which has replaced Bullfrog on the Bank as a staple of Ivy League glee clubs. In comparison with...
...Princeton Glee Club, conducted by Carl Weinrich, noted organist and Lamb Visiting Lecturer at Harvard in 1950, will perform several old English glees, folk songs by Stravinsky, Vaughan Williams, and Kodaly, and works by Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Sullivan...
...Piano from Mozart to Bartok (Beveridge Webster; Perspective). The house of Steinway's 100th anniversary this year gives a chance to lump a music-hall variety program (Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Weber, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Debussy, Bartok) on one disk. Versatile Pianist Webster runs the gamut without stumbling and with considerable brilliance...