Word: oratorio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society, trained by Professor A. T. Davison '06, will join forces with the entire Boston Symphony Orchestra in the production of Arthur Honegger's famous work. This will mark the first appearance in Boston of an opera oratorio which has been so successful in the musical centres as to create a demand for this contemporary choral music...
Last week for the first time in the U. S., Serge Koussevitzky's Boston Symphony Orchestra presented Stravinsky's (Edipus Rex, an opera-oratorio which had its world première last spring in Paris...
...Friday, February 24, and on Saturday, February 25, the Harvard Glee Club, along with the Symphony Orchestra, will give "Oedipus Rex", the oratorio by Stravinsky. This is the first time it has ever been sung in America. On April 1, the Glee Club, again in concert with the Symphony Orchestra, will give Arthur Honegger's "King David." To both these concerts noted critics from New York and Washington have signified their intention of coming...
About the end of February, the Glee Club will present, in conjunction with Mr. Koussevitsky and the members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Stravinsky's "Oedipus Rex". April 1 has been set as a tentative date for the performance of "King David", a striking oratorio by Arthur Honegger, in which the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Radcliffe Choral Society, and famous soloists will take part. Separate rehearsals for this concert are now going on, and joint rehearsals will begin in Paine Hall next week. The third of the annual concert series in Symphony Hall will be given on April...
Last week Dean Hutcheson offered further encouragement: There will be a string orchestra composed of Juilliard students to be trained by Albert Stoessel, director of music at New York University and conductor of the New York Oratorio Society-an organization which may in time come to play as important a part in the musical life of the community as the orchestra of the Paris Conservatoire; there will be three concerts this winter with soloists chosen by Madame Marcella Sembrich from the best vocal students. Leopold Auer, famed violinist and teacher of such musicians as Jascha Heifetz, and Efrem Zimbalist, will...