Word: soloed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Mendelssohn 2. Overture to "The Flying Dutchman" Wagner 3. Fantasia, "La Gioconda" Ponchielli 4. Radcliffe Choral Society a. Just on the Other Side b. Cherry Ribbon c. The Annex Song 5. Ballet Suite, "Sylvia" Delibez 6. Intermezzo from "William Ratcliff" Mascagni 7. Soprano solo, "Un bel di" from "Madame Butterfly" (Mrs. Littlefield) Puccini 8. Roumanian Rhapsody Enesco 9. Selection, "Orange Blossoms" Herbert 10. Radcliffe Choral Society a. The Heathen Song b. China Lady c. Radcliffe Hymn 11. Waltz, "Artist's Life" Strause 12. Hungarian Dance No. 5 Brahma
...program for tonight follows: 1. Bonnie Dundee Glee Club Mister Moon Glee Club 2. On to Plattsburg Banjo Club Football Medley Banjo Club 3. Instrumental Speciality Jazz Band 4. Schneider's Band Glee Club Up the Street Glee Club 5. Piano Solo a) Fantasie Impromptu b) Minuette By F. W. Ramseyer 6. Swing Song Mandolin Club Laughing Eyes Mandolin Club 7. Quartet Specialty Portfolio, Schacht, Combs, Hill. 8. Rose of the Rio Grande Banjo Club Journey's End Banjo Club 9. Australia Glee Club Good Night Ladies Glee Club 10. Fair Harvard Glee and Mandolin Clubs
Mendelssohn's ever favored Elijah, intoned by the regular festival chorus of 325 and an added band of 80 men and women singers from the National Cash Register Company, with 48 professional vocalists to chant t he solo parts so that the quartettes were themselves fair sized choruses-that began Cincinnati's homage to Apollo for 1923. It was prodigious-for mere magnitude. Imagine a dozen soprano voices singing a trill in unison, as they did. The performance was very good, and received universal praise. It deserved...
...highest achievement of the Festival came with Bach's B minor Mass. The chorus was still as large as in the Mendelssohn work, but the solo parts were really sung solo and by artists of note. A gathering of dignitaries celebrated the occasion. The Bach masterpiece is enormously difficult with its intricate weaving of voices in the manner of the old ecclesiastical polyphony. It is likewise immensely fine. Some critics rate it as Bach's greatest work. Others call it the greatest Mass ever written, with Beethoven's Mass in D as the only possible disputant...
This evening's program follows: Prelude to "Carmen", Bizet Overture to "The Merry Wives of Windsor". Nicolai Waltz, "On the Beautiful Blue Danube", J. Straus Fantasia, "Pagliacci", Leoncavalle Suite, "Nuteracker", Tschaikovsky Organ Solo, (Prof. H. D. Sleeper). Liebesfreud, Kreisler Overture to "Tannhauser", Wagner Selection, "Orange Blossoms", Herbert Volga Bargemen's Song, arranged by Agide Jacchia. "Home, Sweet Home", Bishop-Jacchia