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...program for this evening's concert is as follows: Harvard Hymn, Paine; Adoramus Te, Palestrina; Fire, Fire, My Heart, Morley; Gently, Johnny, My Jingalo, Spanish Ladies, The Foggy Dew, English Folk Songs; Choruses from the "Mikado", Sullivan...
...Fogg Art Museum will be the scene of a concert by the Bach Cantata Club this evening, with G. W. Woodworth '24 as conductor. The program offers selections from five composers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and includes Giovanni Gabrielli, Heinrich Schutz, and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina...
...concert opens with "Jubiltate Deo" by Gabrielli, arranged for an eight part chorus. Then follows another piece of Gabrielli's, "Benedictus," for three choirs. The program then proceeds through the works of Schutz, Scarlatti, Da Palestrina, and Carissimi. The final number, "Jephthah" an Oratorio, will be rendered by three soloiste, Amy Browne Townsend, Naney Loring, and James H. Townsend...
...program will consist of the following pieces: "St. Paul's Suite," by Gustav Holst: "On the Plains, Fairy Trains," by Thomas Weelkes; "Five Love Songs," by Brahms; "Adoramus Te," by Palestrina; "Fire, Fire, My Heart," by Thomas Morley; and "I Will not Leave You Comfortless," by William Byrd...
...whole tenor of the article suggests a very hasty and inadequate command of both musical history and literature. For example, the Palestrina choral style which is known as that of the post-Trent period is entirely free from "incredible complexity". Dr. Pratt's statement that Gershwin shows possibilities of approaching such masters as Brahms and Mozart in choral effects and counterpoint is astonishing. Aside from the fact that the best choral works of Mozart and Brahms are of a serious nature, a careful analysis of the works reveals no similarity in either their construction or the final effects produced...