Word: orpheus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 his early Hora Novissima. At 56, rheumatic...
...Domine Jesu Christi" by Des Pres; "Fire, Fire, My Heart" by Morley; two Italian folk songs, "Canto di Caccia" and, "Tu Mi Vuoi"; "Master, Ades Florum" by Carter; "Der Jager Abschied" and "Jagdlied" by Mendelsohn; "The Coronation Scene" from "Boris Godounov" by Moussorgsky; two choruses and a ballet from "Orpheus" by Gluck; "At Father's Door," a Russian folk song; and "The March of the Peers" from "Iolanthe" by Gilbert and Sullivan...
...Glee Club's program will include: two Italian folk songs; a French selection, "Les Anges"; a chorus from "Orpheus" by Gluck; "Tutti Venite Amati"; choruses from Gilbert and Sullivan's "Patienco"; "Glorious Apollo"; and "O Domine Jesu Christi" by Joachim Des Pres...
With solo parts sung by an octetta Mendlessohn's "Jaglied" will be the next selection. Then the Club will sing two Italian folk songs, followed by two choruses from "Orpheus" by Gluck, the "March of the Peers" from Gilbert and Sullivan's "Iolanthe", and the "Corongtion Scene" from the opera by Meussorgsky...
...Glee Club's program tonight will open with the lively "Fire, Fire, My Heart" by Morley, followed by two student choruses from the "Madrigal Comedies" by Banchieri. Third on the program will be two choruses and a ballet from "Orpheus" by Gluck...