Word: requiem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock, 120 members of the club will sing the following program at the Young People's Concert in Symphony Hall: Christmas Song Holst Le Miracle de Saint Nicholas French Folk Song Les Anges dans nos Campagnes French Folk Song Two Choruses from "Requiem" Faure Agnus Dei In Paradisum Cantate Domino Hasler O Sacrum Convivium Viadana Wassail Song English Folk Song Gently Johnny English Folk Song The Nightingale Weelkes The Campbells are Coming Scottish Folk Song La-Bas, Sur ces Montagnes French Canadian Folk Song Choruses from "The Yeomen of the Guard" Sullivan
...REQUIEM-Humbert Wolfe-Dor-an ($1.50). In English drawing-rooms which once echoed with frantic praise of Shelley's Adonais or censure of Keats' Endymion people now prefer, if literature must be mentioned, to comment briefly on what Bernard Shaw said to the old lady from Nantucket. The one astounding exception to this rule is found in the poetry of Humbert Wolfe, a young Briton whose work has actually inserted itself into the lists of best sellers. Possessed of a dexterous though partly imitative technique, it has none of the raucous and hurtling sentiment which usually gives poetry...
...This winter he permitted his private feelings more rein and the audience knew him for its own man. Of no one was there more good talk in musical Manhattan than of the tall, concentrated, sparse-haired primate of the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. He gave them Brahm's "Requiem" last week, as personal a thing as ever a German wrote. "Behold, all flesh is grass and all the glory of man is as the flower of the field," sang the Choral Symphony Society and Soprano Elizabeth Rethberg and Baritone Fraser Gange. "Behold," Conductor Furtwangler seemed to say: "This...
...noon, the Vagabond will make his way to the Music Building to hear Professor Hill talk on Brahms. Ever since last year, when he heard the Glee Club sing some of Brains' love songs and his Requiem, he has had a desire to know more of that composer who certainly belied his reputation for being "academic...
...knew his solfeggio; at 17, he was admitted to the Paris Conservatory of Music; at 21, he won the Conservatory's Prix de Rome, and went there at the French government's expense. Three years' study in Rome prepared him to compose a laudable requiem mass and several popular operas...