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Presentations by Harvard alone will include two 17th century psalms, "Miserere," by Allegri, and Sweelinck's "Psalm 134," and a modern musical arrangement of the 121st psalm, composed especially for the Harvard Glee Club by Darius Milhand, inspired by the club's European tour in 1921. A special group of Harvard singers will offer three Mozart canons...
...Hymn, "Psalm LXXVIII...
...Nymphe and Shepherds" of Purcell was written for a play called the "Libertine," a fact not mentioned on the program but given here for what it is worth. Following are two religious pieces of the 17th century, "Confitemini Domino" by Constantini and a setting for chorus of the 134th psalm by Bach's contemporary, Sweelink. The 18th century is represented by a beautiful chorus from Gluck's "Orpheus." The two modern choral works to be sung are unusual arrangements. "Mal" Holmes has turned the organ accompaniment of Mendelssohn's motet "Laudati Pueri" into a rich orchestral background, while the other...
Bill Hay knows his Bible. He won a Bible prize at the age of ten, has read his well-thumbed copy of the Scriptures over the radio some 2,500 times since the late '20s. He likes to skip around in the Bible, adds a psalm if he has finished a reading before his time is up. The 23rd Psalm is a favorite. It "is always good," he says, "for a 45-second filler...
...immediately available for worldwide service. In 126 conscription speeches in Parliament since June 10, not one M.P. mentioned that 500 Quebec municipalities were reported to have signed a pledge never to accept overseas conscription under any circumstances. Not one quoted the anonymously written paraphrase of the Twenty-third Psalm which was making the rounds of Canada...