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Last year the accomplishment which attracted more attention than any other was the club's performance of Brahms' German Requiem. M. Koussevitsky said after the concert that, with one exception, the Glee Club is the best trained chorus he had heard in any country of the world...
This year the accomplishment which has attracted more attention than any other was the Glee Club performance of Brahm's "Requiem." M. Serge Koussevitsky, Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, said after the performance. "Harvard has the best trained chorus I have ever heard in any country of the world . . . . Dr. Davison with his Glee Club has done what countless musicians have only partially succeeded in doing; he has instilled into his singers real feeling for the music they work with...
...immense amount of preparation involved, said. "In such devotion will a musician, a man, a leader, of Dr. Davison's temper pursue such endless and exacting toll. Nobody calls it art, nobody names it uplift. . . .Self expression and release are the better words with Brahms of the Requiem for channel and Dr. Davison for steersman...
...which has never been popular in the U. S. On the third day, Frederick Stock, conductor of the Chicago Symphony, conducted his own Symphonic Variations-a sound, scholarly piece of uninspired craftsmanship. Florence Austral, Australian soprano who has sung Wagnerian rôles in London, resoundingly delivered Brahms' Requiem. On the fourth day, Pierné's St. Francis of Assis furnished Tenor Edward Johnson an opportunity to demonstrate that an intelligent singer can make even inherently poor music impressive. The school children sang their difficult music with precision...
...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...