Word: orchestra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Glee Club and the Choral Society, trained by Professor A. T. Davison '06, will join forces with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, in the performance of Arthur Honegger's famous work. M. Serge Koussevitsky will conduct...
Preparations for the Symphony Hall production of "King David" are rapidly nearing completion with rehearsals in Symphony Hall with M. Serge Koussevitsky, and the Boston Symphony orchestra. As in "Oedipus Rex", the University Glee Club, trained by Professor A. T. Davison '06, will take the part of the chorus. The Radcliffe Choral Society will aid in supporting the soloists who are to sing in the opera...
Back in 1915 the first Freshman Jubilee was held in order that the enthusiastic male choruses of Gore, Standish, and Smith Halls might vent their vocal jubilation for the benefit of mothers, sisters, and other relatives. The affair' was aesthetic in every sense. First, the Freshman orchestra would play "Nearer My God to Thee' and then a ripple of applause would ensue from the spectators seated at the tables in the quadrangle. After a buffet supper, the interdormitory singing contest came. Standish Hall won the first contest and received the handsome silver trophy from President Lowell. After the singing...
Harvard is blessed with advantages that make it especially attractive to the musically inclined student. The part of the faculty devoted to this subject is gifted: the Glee Club, the University Orchestra, and the Instrumental Clubs depend on student talent: the Music Building furnishes accommodations: the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Whiting concerts are visitors from outside that help endow the University in that art. Likewise the history and current events of music are here, to be had for the asking, or, as tonight, for the slight labor of attending a lecture...
Stearns, in charge of the Freshman Smoker, announced his assistants as follows, R. L. Scott '31, sub-chairman, R. S. Ogden '31, catering Henry Chalfanf '31, cards and posters Daniel Merrimas '31, orchestra, F. M. Pruyn '31, speakers. The rest of the committee will be announced at a later date by Stearns. The Smoker, to be held some time in April, will be the first formal gathering of the class...