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Gloria Perkins, 10, whose mother is a church organist in Queens Village, Long Island, and whose father, Clemmett Birdsong Perkins, is Eastern Passenger Agent for the Norfolk & Western Railway Co., played the Mendelssohn Concerto with the National Symphony in Washington. Gloria is a wispy little girl who wears big hair ribbons and oily black corkscrew curls. She took so long to tune her violin that the audience started to titter. But the feeling rapidly changed as the Concerto got under way. Gloria was not only technically expert but her playing had a simple persuasive quality that touched the audience deeply...
Retired. Philip Hale, 79, dean of U. S. music critics; as critic for the Boston Herald and program annotator for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. A onetime lawyer, he studied music in Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart, Paris, became an organist and choral conductor, a newspaper critic in 1890. As Herald critic since 1903, he was famed for witty, lucid, learned writing, for his bright Windsor ties and for the green felt bag which he carried almost everywhere...
Archibald T. Davison '05, Professor of Choral Music, will be on leave for the entire year. In his absence, his duties as Organist and Choirmaster of the University and Director of the Harvard Glee Club will be taken over by George W. Woodworth '24, Lecturer in Music, who has been his assistant for several years...
...series of talks on scientific progress has proved most popular and appropriate, and the speakers have been uniformly excellent. The recitals by Mr. Phelps in the Memorial Church have permitted many music lovers to hear an organist who has a rare talent, even if some still complain about the acoustics. The George Washington program, and the lectures by Mr. Conant, Mr. Johnson, and Mr. Cherrington have been varied in appeal and authoritative. Along other lines the industrial and historical excursions under the direction of G. S. Miller have given students, who would not have initiative to explore for themselves...
...fourth of a series of weekly organ recitals by Arthur M. Phelps, choirmaster of the Cathedral of St. Paul in Boston, and Organist of the Summer School, will be held Thursday evening August 3, at 7.15 o'clock in the Memorial Church, Mrs. Ethel H. Metrasalte, will assist...