Word: musicalized
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Pierian and Glee Club Concert.THE concert given by the Pierian Sodality and Glee Club, last week, was the most enjoyable one that has been given here for years. Both societies showed great improvement, and especially the Pierians, who seem to have succeeded in creating quite good music in place of the woful discords we have been accustomed to expect and receive from them. The society is certainly most fortunate in possessing such an efficient leader as Mr. Dodge, and it is a source of profound regret that he is a Senior and will graduate so soon...
Oratorios.Elijah and Judas Maccabaeus have lately been given by the Handel and Haydn Society, assisted by Mme. Rudersdorff and others. They were enjoyable to those who have patience to listen to heavy music for two or three hours, and to painful efforts of a passee prima donna. These Oratorios may be very fine, but in our private estimation there is too much heavy music and tiresome recitatives, and, unless these are rendered in an artistic manner, combined with voices adequate to the demands of the music, the effect is anything but pleasant to the hearers...
...Theatricals.A very pleasant entertainment was given last Wednesday evening, at the Chelsea Academy of Music, by members of the H H Society. The bills announced "Poor Pillicoddy," and Mr. Byron's burlesque, Fra Diavolo, as the programme, and these were given in a manner which not only displayed much individual talent, but showed abundant and painstaking rehearsal...
Birds make music and poets make rhyme...