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...Bach Cantata Club, directed by Mrs. Langdon Warner, and assisted by Mr. E. Power Biggs, organist, will give a concert at the Germanic Museum at 8:30 o'clock. The program will include "Concerts No. 2 in B flat," Handel; "1ch ruf" zu Herr Jesu Christ," Bach; G minor and G major fugues, Bach; and "Missa Brevis in D." Mozart...
Played by E. Power Biggs, organist of the Harvard Church of Brookline, the Germanic Museum's new "Classical" organ, thought to be the only one of its type in this country, made its debut in a public concert on Sunday afternoon, including several of Bach's most famous preludes and fugues in the program...
Next Sunday at 3:30 o'clock E. Pow- Biggs, organist of the Harvard church of Brookline, will give a public on the new organ in the Germanic Museum, which is a replica of Silbermann Organ used by Bach in imposing...
Horatio William Parker, who belonged to one of New England's proudest families, was born in Auburndale, Mass, in 1863. Until he was 14 young Parker took little interest in music. Within two years he became a church organist in Dedham, later in Roxbury, forsook his job three years later to study at the Hochschule fur Musik in Munich. In 1886 he returned to the U. S. with a Bavarian bride, got organ posts with churches in Brooklyn, Harlem and Manhattan...
Domestic honors came to Parker thick & fast. All in a few years he was made choir director and organist at Trinity Church in Boston, Battell Professor of Music at Yale and later dean of its music school, organist at New York's Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas, conductor of Philadelphia's 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...