Word: requiem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poetry the Advocate is more ragged and uncertain. Richard Linn Edsall's "Ad Beatam Mariam Virgonem", adding nothing to mediaeval hymns in sentiment or diction, is noticeable for its subject matter among the vapidities of current taste, which undergraduates are fairly quick to imitate. Byron Cutcheon's "Requiem for the Poet" contains three good lines among a number of bad ones. "April Fool!" by Stuart Ayers is the best contribution in verse, disposing the manners of the day in four effective quatrains printed zigzag down the page. "My Pleasant Celia" is agreeable and neatly versified...
...brilliant public concerts given in Symphony Hall during the past year. Last spring, the rendering of Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony" was heralded a great achievement and established the organization as one of the foremost male choruses in America. The acclaim with which the recent performance of Brahms's "Requiem" was grooted, marks, however, a still greater triumph M. Koussevitzky paid the Glee Club a signal honor by acting as is cost conductor; now he adds his high praise in words which carry the weight of undoubted authority. He not only asserts that it is the best trained chorus in America...
...delighted to act as guest conductor in the recent performance of the Brahms Requiem, and the experience was a pleasure I shall not easily forget...
High praise is the keynote of the review by H. T. Parker '89 of the University Glee Club's performance last night of Brahms' "Requiem," conducted by M. Serge Koussevitsky. Mr. Parker, writing in the Transcript, describes the performance, by the Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society, as follows...
...within them. In such devotion will a musician, a man, a leader, of Dr. Davison's temper, pursue such endless and exacting toil. Nobody calls it art, nobody names it uplift. Everybody fights shy of such shamming. Self-expression and release are the better words--with Brahms of the Requiem for channel and Dr. Davison for steersman...