Word: passions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last season, the joint forces of the Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra presented John Sebastian Bach's magnificent St. Matthew Passion for the first time in these parts in several years. The results so pleased Dr. Koussevitzy that he determined to repeat the work this year in the ideal manner--that is on Good Friday. Thus, today is the date of the performance of the greatest of all Passion music, which is to be given at Symphony Hall in two parts: 4:30 p. m. and after an intermission...
Names are funny, too. Juliet does some speculating about where-fore Romeo is Romeo and not Caspar Milquetoast or some other moniker that would rid the young pigeons of the family barriers between them. And the tone of her voice--that tender caress of a voice, instinct with primal passion and heart-throb and love--gives a musical quality and dramatic force that's been associated with it ever since. If you said to us "Romeo" and we replied "Romeyback" that would be that. But when Juliet, atop the rose-kirtled balcony, breathes out on the sweet smelling evening...
...Friday afternoon and evening, the Glee Club and Choral Society will present with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Dr. Koussevitzky, Bach's "Saint Matthew Passion." R.C.A. Victor, favorably impressed by the excellence of last year's presentation by the two societies, will record the entire work on twenty 12-inch records. In addition, the first half of the three hour program will be broadcast over the N.B.C. network...
...applauded Mr. Roosevelt's program four years ago, but we decline to follow a leader, however high-minded, who proposes to take charge of affairs because he thinks he knows all the answers. Mr. Roosevelt is not ambitious personally, but he has turned into an Eagle Scout whose passion for doing the country a good turn every day has at last got out of hand. His 'Now' remarks were a giveaway- the utterances of a petulant saviour. America doesn't need to be saved today; it can wait till tomorrow. Meanwhile, Mister, we'll sleep...
...history: by this I do not mean that a study of history makes one a conservative, let alone a reactionary. . . . But both parties are wiser if they know their own past and that of their opponents. It was a statesman who was also a philosopher who wrote, 'No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. To make anything very terrible obscurity seems in general to be necessary. When we know the full extent of any danger, when we can accustom our eyes to it, a great deal of the apprehension vanishes...