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...orchestra, managing some of the unwieldy winds. Though Conductor Brico was in excellent form and the women played better than ever before, the real hero of the evening was Horatio William Parker, a dead and almost forgotten composer whose first oratorio made him famous 40 years ago. His Hora Novissima has since been played so rarely in the concert hall that last week it seemed like a premiere...
...Parker wrote Hora Novissima, his masterpiece, taking the text from Bernard de Morlaix' 12th-Century Rhythm of the Celestial Country. The oratorio was full of magnificent solos and broad, romantic melodies, showed unmistakably the young composer's German training. After a great success in the U. S., Hora Novissima became, in 1899, the first U. S. work ever sung at the Three Choirs Festival in Worcester, England. Three years later Cambridge University made him a Doctor of Music...
...Eurydice and Orpheus Clubs, conductor of the New Haven Symphony. By juggling his appointments, rehearsals, classes, Parker managed to carry a prodigiously heavy schedule. He still found time to write odes, masques, chamber music, organ-pieces, ballads, overtures, sonatas, cantatas, two operas. But he never equaled his early Hora Novissima. At 56, rheumatic and overworked, Parker wrote A.D. 1919 as a memorial to Yalemen killed in the War, died soon after...
...Symphony Orchestra (Federal Music Project) is to play in sanders Theatre this evening at 8:15. Among the works to be performed are Randall Thompson's Second Symphony and Bruch's Violin Concerto in E minor. The Federal Music Project is also giving Horatio W. Parker's oratorio, "Hora Novissima," in Jordan Hall on Friday evening...
...became professor of music at St. Paul's School, Garden City, and in 1894 was appointed professor of music at Yale. In 1902 he received a degree of Doctor of Music from Cambridge University, England. He is the author of much sacred and secular music, including "Hora Novissima," the only American composition ever played at the Chester Festival in England...