Word: mendelssohns
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...complete program for tonight's concert in the Yard is as follows: Harvard Hymn Paine Integer Vilae Flemming The Hunter's Farewell Mendelssohn Bedouin Song Foote Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light Bach Drake's Drom Coleridge Taylor
...numbers by the glee club of the Boston City Club with F. H. Luker as director: Polonaise from "Eugen Onegin", Tachaikovsky Overture to "Phedre", Massenet Waltz, "Girls of Baden", Kamzak Fantasia, "Tales of Hoffman", Offenbach "Finlandia", Sibelius Intermezzo, "Cavelleria Rusticana", Mascagni First Hungarian Rhapsody, Liszt The Huntsman's Farewell, Mendelssohn John Peel (Old English Hunting Song), Andrews Oh Trust in the Lord, (Largo with organ), Handel Boston City Club Glee Club Frank H. Luker, conductor Bacchanale from "Samson and Delilah", Saint-Saens Waltz, "Miner's-Lights", Zeller Entrance of the Guests into the Wartburg. "Tannhauser", Wagner
...program for the evening, including the numbers to be given by the Radcliffe Choral Society, follows: 1. Wedding March from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Mendelssohn 2. Overture to "The Flying Dutchman" Wagner 3. Fantasia, "La Gioconda" Ponchielli 4. Radcliffe Choral Society a. Just on the Other Side b. Cherry Ribbon c. The Annex Song 5. Ballet Suite, "Sylvia" Delibez 6. Intermezzo from "William Ratcliff" Mascagni 7. Soprano solo, "Un bel di" from "Madame Butterfly" (Mrs. Littlefield) Puccini 8. Roumanian Rhapsody Enesco 9. Selection, "Orange Blossoms" Herbert 10. Radcliffe Choral Society a. The Heathen Song b. China Lady c. Radcliffe...
...Mendelssohn's ever favored Elijah, intoned by the regular festival chorus of 325 and an added band of 80 men and women singers from the National Cash Register Company, with 48 professional vocalists to chant t he solo parts so that the quartettes were themselves fair sized choruses-that began Cincinnati's homage to Apollo for 1923. It was prodigious-for mere magnitude. Imagine a dozen soprano voices singing a trill in unison, as they did. The performance was very good, and received universal praise. It deserved...
...highest achievement of the Festival came with Bach's B minor Mass. The chorus was still as large as in the Mendelssohn work, but the solo parts were really sung solo and by artists of note. A gathering of dignitaries celebrated the occasion. The Bach masterpiece is enormously difficult with its intricate weaving of voices in the manner of the old ecclesiastical polyphony. It is likewise immensely fine. Some critics rate it as Bach's greatest work. Others call it the greatest Mass ever written, with Beethoven's Mass in D as the only possible disputant...