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...chorals until January 6," he said, "in over 30 languages. As a matter of fact, Harvard sung the other day until they were rained out." This afternoon, the Committee is featuring the St. Williams CYO Band on the City Hall Plaza. "They'll all be dressed as the Pifferari and playing bagpipes...or at least they sound like clarinets. It's an old Italian custom. Also a Bavarian rite of lighting four candles, one each week of advent. The mayor lights them; really great to see. The Camp Edwards Choral Arts Society will sing at that one. We even have...

Author: By Jonathan O. Swan, | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 12/21/1951 | See Source »

...Woodworth '24, assistant director of the choir and director of the Choral Society, includes three songs which were also on last year's program, "The Holly and the Ivy," a traditional Gloucestershire carol, "Fum, Fum, Fum," a Christmas march from the Catalonian province, and the "Christmas Carol of the Pifferari," a Neapolitan air. The other carols, which have not been sung recently are "Glory to God in the Highest," by Pergolist; "The Five Lesser Joys of Mary," by Warlock, "Upon My Lap My Sovereign Sits," by Pierson; "Christmas Bells," by Osgood; and "Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence," by Gustay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHOIR AND CHORALISTS SING CAROLS TONIGHT | 12/16/1931 | See Source »

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