Word: psalms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Lowell took as his text Psalm CXXI:6: "The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night...
...psalmist promised to the faithful freedom from both sunstroke and moonstroke. The meaning of the first of these is clear--especially in the hot climate where the psalm was written. But to most people at the present day the second promise is either meaningless, or a reminder of an ancient, and obsolete superstition that the shining of the moon on the face during sleep will cause insanity a superstition still preserved in our word lunatic...
...Then sounded a joyous fanfare of trumpets and the procession re-formed and wound its way to the Chapel of Edward the Confessor, patron of the Order, to lay the gold on the altar there. The Dean delivered himself of a brief address and the choir sang the 68th Psalm to a harmonized Gregorian chant. The Order then marched in solemn procession around the Abbey and with the laying of a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the "most impressive ceremony the old Abbey had seen for centuries" was over...
...Glee Club started the program with the 130th Psalm in memory of John Henry Berry '25, a member of the club who has just recently died. After a severe yet impressive beginning in the two pieces of old church music, the concert took on a distinctly modern tone--a radical change from Dr. Davison's usual course. Mr. Converse's "Laudate Dominum" was particularly striking in its vigor and tone, filled out as it was by trombones and horns. As for the "Deux Choeurs" by J. Guy Ropartz, they were remarkable only because they were dedicated to the Harvard Glee...
When the Glee Club toured Europe in 1921 Monsieur Milhaud became greatly interested in its work. To show his high regard for the Club he composed and dedicated to the Club music for the 121st Psalm. This the Glee Club sang at several of its concerts last year...