Word: sing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...celebrated pianist from the New England Conservatory of Music, who will assist Jascha Heifetz and Paderewski in their coming Boston concerts, will render an interpretation of Granado's selections. Mr. Ramon Ricalde, the Spanish tenor who is to join the San Cario Opera Company, has also consented to sing a few Spanish songs...
...Monteux will at last play the instrumental parts, at least, of Beethoven's 9th Symphony. There seems no good reason why the resources of the Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society should not be used in such a worthy cause. Mme. Frieda Hempel, of fine reputation, will sing some Mozart arias. Boston will hear, too, Honnegger, of the famous Parisian "six" long awaited hereabouts. Brahms' Academic Overture completes the program, a very noteworthy one, unfortunately (for Harvard men) coming the week-end of the Yale game...
Most noteworthy incident of a noteworthy concert was the singing of Schubert, not in uneven English translation robbing music of charm and smoothness, but in the German, the words to which Schubert himself set music. Too long have singers, imbued with mistaken patriotism, or actuated by others thus inspired, crippled the effect of Brahms, Schumann and Schubert, but it would seem that this is past. Probably it was this handicap of words ill-fitted to music which damaged Mme. Matzenauer's rendition of Schubert's "Erlkonig" when she sang it with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, four years since...
...famous Hampton quartet of colored students will sing a selection of old plantation melodies after the addresses...
...Glee Club will sing several light songs and also some college songs, and the orchestra will play classical and popular selections. Approximately 150 men from the University will take part, and 65 will make the trip from Princeton...