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Musical "sophisticates" have been sneering at the Berlioz Requiem for many years. No piece that's written for a chorus and orchestra of 400 plus four brass bands could possibly have any value, they explain. Not many of these people actually had heard the Requiem; as a matter of fact they had little chance. For the piece that Berlioz most wanted preserved has been glibly ignored by most of the world...
...Choral Society and the Harvard Glee Club last night gave the final concert in a series of three with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The cheruses and orchestra presented Berliex Requiem for the first time to Boston audiences. The first two concerts were Friday afternoon and Saturday night, while a half-hour program of the orchestra and singers rehearsal was broadcast Sunday afternoon, hearsal was broadcast on Sunday afternoon...
Members of the Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society will perform Berlioz' Requiem with the Boston Symphony Orchestra this afternoon at Symphony Hall with Charles Munch conducting. The concert will be repeated tomorrow and Tuesday nights...
...Requiem Mass for Eddie Collins was held at the Church of the Advent yesterday. Tom Yawkey, owner of the Red Sox, Will Harridge, president of the American League, and Stuffy McInnis and Jack Barry, two of Collins' teammates in the $100,000 infield, were pall bearers. Mayor Hynes, former Governor Curley, and other notables were present...
...first concert, some 1,000 young men and maidens milled outside in protest. Inside, as the conductor raised his baton for the Verdi Requiem, someone yelled "Down with Van Kempen." Others took it up, added "Sieg Heil" to the chant. Two students began singing the Horst Wessel song, two others tossed bottles of tear gas. Police cleared out the troublemakers and the concert went...