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Most of us know Pietro, the handorganist, but few have heard Pietro, the pipe-organist. Yet both are masters in their respective fields...
...addition to the morning services there were held in the Chapel a series of organ recitals, given by Mr. Arthur M. Phelps, the Summer School organist, on July 11, 18, 25, and August 1. At the daily service, the Summer School choir furnished singing for which they prepared at rehearsals every Tuesday and Thursday...
Tuesday evening in Jordan Hall a concert by the Eighteenth Century Symphony Orchestra. The program includes selections from Boccherini, Gluck, Scarlatti, Sammartini, Haydn, Couperin and Corelli. The soloists will be Myrtle Brown, soprano, Marguerite Morgan and Gertrude D. Johnson, harpsichordists, and Katherine Nolan, organist. The program should prove a delightful change to one weary of modern cacophony as well as to the student of the history of music...
...libretto, the amazing concoction of one Friedrich Kind, Weber wrote a score that combines the simple tunefulness of the folksong and the Bavarian yodel with the brilliancy of the concert hall. It contains also demoniac bombast and eerie "agits" which would be dear to the heart of any cinema organist. Its first Viennese success was tremendous. Weber himself wrote in his diary: "Greater enthusiasm there cannot be, and I tremble to think of the future, for it is scarcely possible to rise higher than this. To God alone the praise...
...addition to Mr. Coates, the personnel includes Joseph Bonnet, who is perhaps the world's most distinguished organist, and Vladimir Rosing, noted operatic director. One of the organs is said to be the largest in the world. Another contains an equivalent for every percussion instrument imaginable?military drum, oriental drum, bells, steamboat whistle...