Word: requiems
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With the Symphony for the last two springs "Doc" Davison's singers have given Bach's great B Minor Mass. With the Vassar Glee Club in Poughkeepsie this spring they made an. evening of Brahms's German Requiem. Unlike most college glee club concerts, it was not a prelude to dancing. This week the Glee Club, again with the Requiem, is to help Dr. Koussevitzky celebrate the centenary of Brahms's birth...
...direction of Arthur Fiedler. The concert to be presented on Thursday will be given in connection with the five day Brahms Jubilee that will be held in Symphony Hall, April 26-30. As a part of the same celebration the club will present with the Choral Society the Brahms Requiem on Sunday, April 30. In both concerts Dr. Serge Koussevitzky will conduct both the orchestra and chorus...
...Sunday, April 30, the Radcliffe Choral Society will join the Glee Club at Symphony Hall in singing Brahm's "Requiem" with the Symphony orchestra. About 40 members of the Choral Society and Glee Club will take part in the Brahms Jubilee at Symphony Hall on Thursday, April...
...Europe this winter young Werner Janssen has made a name as conductor and composer. But last week he learned that even a determined young musician cannot always rule his own actions. Bristling with energy he arrived in Berlin to conduct Rubin Goldmark's Gettysburg Requiem, a symphony by the Russian Borodin and his own Louisiana. Scarcely was he off the train when he was informed that his program had been changed for one of German music. Gettysburg had been banned. Director Lorenz Horber of the Berlin Philharmonic said, "because we are having trouble with the U. S. just...
...unpractical creature, pregnant or convalescent from childbirth for six years out of their union of nine. He went deeper & deeper in debt. Figaro earned him $200, Don Giovanni about $225. A grey-clad stranger knocked at his door one day, asked him to narrow his price for writing a Requiem March. The stranger turned out to be steward to a count who wanted to be known as a composer but Mozart, worn out at 35, took him to be Death. He died before he could finish the Requiem, had a five-dollar funeral, an unmarked grave...