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...Soloist at the Wellesley-Harvard joint choral concert this Sunday will be a former member of the Glee Club, Joseph Lautner, '21. As an undergraduate he was first Secretary and then President of the choristers. Since then he has studied abroad, where he attained world-wide fame as a tenor and has recently returned from a European concert tour. The concert will be at Wellesley in Houghton Memorial Chapel at 7:30 o'clock Sunday evening, and is open to the public free of charge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLEE CLUB SINGS SUNDAY | 4/17/1937 | See Source »

...Boston Symphony Orchestra is on tour this week, but on the week-end of April 9 and 10 they will return to play an all-Brahms program with Myra Hess, the English pianist, as soloist. The Academic Festival Overture will open the program and will be followed by the Second Pianoforte Concerto in B flat in which Myra Hess will play. Brahms' Second Symphony in D major will close the concert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 4/1/1937 | See Source »

...newspaper and print shop, studied at the University of Michigan, with singing lessons on the side. When he migrated to Manhattan in 1923 he was not sure whether he wanted to be a lawyer or a singer. For two years he studied law at Columbia, sang as paid baritone soloist at St. Matthew's & St. Timothy's Church on West 84th Street. Ending up with an LL. B., he chose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Fight Against Fear | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...Indianapolis, Jerry W. Flanders, 24, hired a soloist to sing Gloomy Sunday at his funeral, was arrested in a downtown saloon just as he was about to drink a glass of poisoned beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 25, 1937 | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

Particular praise went to Soloist Ferenc Farago's fine baritone. Young Dr. Farago (32) is head of the Institute of Bacteriology at Budapest University. After graduating from the University's Medical School, he studied at Johns Hopkins, Harvard and Chicago, is the only singer in the group who ever saw the U. S. before. He has been with the chorus since he was 19, never misses a rehearsal, takes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Singing Hungarians | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

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