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...concert in Cambridge, an oldtime Glee Club secretary hung on the conductor's lectern the "shingle" which used to call gleemen to rehearsal 60 years ago. Scholarly Dr. Richard Cabot told of the Club's history. Dr. Koussevitzky made a praiseful speech. The Club sang Bach, Handel, Palestrina and an ambitious "Dirge for Two Veterans" written in sultry, modernistic vein by British Composer Gustav Hoist who taught last year...
Many numbers which have been sung by the club for many years are included on the program which follows: Cavalier Song Stanford Dirge for Two Veterans Holst Adoremus Te Palestrina To Thee Alone be Glory Bach Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite Handel Prayer of Thanksgiving Netherland Folk Song...
...horizontal aspect of their music as well as the vertical one, and the perfection of the art of diatonic composition have a unifying effect on the choral music performed after that time. Mr. Wooldridge devotes generous portions of his book to a discussion of Lassus, Byrd, and Palestrina...
Copey" likes Palestrina, New England, mustard-colored suits, Kipling, Dickens. He envies Manoel Garcia, who taught singing until his 100th year and then became a cigar. Copey phobias are drafts, coughing, lateness, being photographed, being asked to write prefaces to books by former pupils, and fire. He always swore that Hollis was a fire trap...
...University who are present may take part in the singing of college songs in combination with the Glee Club. Tonight's program, like former ones opens with the Harvard Hymn, a composition by Paine. The other numbers on the program are, Give a Rouse, Bantock; Adoramus Te, Palestrina; Gently, Johnny, My Jingalo; The Foggy Dew; Spanish Ladies; English Folk Songs; O Isis and Osiris, Mozart; Choruses from the "Mikado," Sullivan...