Word: musicae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...music; it was excellently executed by the Glee Club and Choral Society. The "Demon of ht Gibbet," a ballad for men's chorus, was beautifully terrifying. And when the composer turned around on the podium to lead an audience participation tribute to Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge and to "Frau Musica." Sanders Theatre became animated with three part canons...
Norton Professor of Poetry Paul Rindemith will be guest conductor for half the program. He will conduct four of his own works: "Frau Musica," a canon for the 85th birthday of Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, "Apparebit Repentina Dies," and "The Demon of the Gibbet." The audience will be requested to sing the canon for Mrs. Coolidge...
...Bursar's office. Harvard had not been the world's most congenial patron for the art. Puritan distrust of music as a rootlet of evil lingered on throughout the 19th century: Francis Parkman was said to have ended his yearly budget report at the Corporation with "Musica Delenda Est." By 1914, however, most of this sinfulness seemed to have worn off, and music was looked on, at worst, as a useless frill...