Word: reapers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...program for the first concert is as follows: Harvard Hymn Paine Miserere Allegri Chorus of Bacchanties Gouned Coronation Scene, from Boris Godonov Moussorgsky Gute Nacht German Folk Song Reaper's Song Bohemian Folk Song Then round about the starry throne, from Sampson Handel
...romance of the reaper and the life of its prophet are forgotten, perhaps, in the cities. But in the fields of the world, men hitch everything from gas tractors to camels and musk oxen ahead of their harvesting machinery and marvel, as regularly as the world's cereals ripen, at the power over the earth given them by one man's brain...
...invented a hemp-brake, a cloyer-sheller, a bellows and a threshing machine that won him fame before he left the old country. He often stood pensively over a rusted wreck beside his Virginia barn, the wreck of a baffled dream. Cyrus too studied it. It was a reaper that would not reap. One day in 1831 (after his father's death), he hitched four horses to an ungainly contraption, "a cross between an Astley chariot, a wheelbarrow and a flying machine" (London Times), and lurched into a neighbor's hilly oatfield. Horses shied, dogs barked, boys yelled...
...Christmas Oratorio' Bach Miserere Allegri Cherubim Song Rachmaninov Cavalier Song Stanford Along the Garden Ways Heilman Chant de Guerre Schmitt (Soloist: Joseph Lautner '21) Chorus of Bacchantes, from Philemon and Baucis" Gounod Moonland Melartin Coronation Scene, from "Boris Godounov" Moussorgsky Intermission Four Folk Songs: The Galway Piper Gute Nacht Reaper's Song Turn Ye to Me (Soloist: C. R. Gordon II/) Drake's Drum Coleridge-Taylor Love Songs: Brahms Not so Close to Me A Tremor's in the Branches Nightingale, Thy Sweetest Song From You Hills the Torrent Speeds Secret Nook in Shady Spot Then Round about the Starry...
Religious music, especially carols, are featured in both the program of the club and of Mme Onegin. Four folk songs, "The Galway Piper", "Qut Wacht". "The Reaper's Song", and "Turn Ye to Me", also occupy an important position on the Symphony Hall program...