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...will be conducted by G. Wallace Woodworth '24, is as follows: Praestat hoc noblis from "Ecce jam noctis" Chadwick Diffusa est gratia Nanine Four Christmas Carols Christ Is Born of Maiden Fair Gauntlett This Is the Truth Sent from Above Vaughan-Williams Le Miracle de Saint Nicolas French Carol Soloists: Karl E. Schevill '37 David P. McAllester '38 Sing We Noel Tutti venite armati Gastoldi Glorious Apollo Webbe Two Sea Chanties arr by Colin McPhee Stormalong Solist: John L. Bishop '37 What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor? Soloist: Benjamin C. Riggs '37 Der Gang zum Liebchen Brahms Four...
...Russian choruses are essentially the same. Individual voices have a natural, intrained quality. In a well-disciplined ensemble they blend to make sure-fire effects, attain nostalgic softness, rise to mighty crescendoes. Leader of the Moscow Cathedral Choir is slender, personable Vicolas Afonsky, a Tsarist army officer. The featured soloist is Kapiton Zaporojetz a massive basso profundo whom the Tsar's young daughters used to call "that rosy milk-fed piglet." Conductor Afonsky did his job in a quiet, self-effacing way last week. Basso Zaporojetz emitted cavernous tones to enrich the ensemble. But the best solo work...
...William G. Kirby '35 conducting, the Glee Club will give its last Yard Concert of the year on the steps of Widener. The program will include the Chorus and Finale from "Die Meistersinger" by Richard Wagner, Three Love Songs of Brahms, "Spanish Ladies," an old English Folk Song. The soloist in this selection will be Robert L. Bishop...
Another old English Folk Song, "Brennan on the Moor," will follow. Nixon deTarnowsky '35 is the soloist in this song. The choruses from Sir Arthur Sullivan's "Iolanthe" (first and second sets.) Various college songs closed the previously announced program, but "Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite" by Brahms was added as the final number by request...
...late husband founded the Lindsborg festivals 54 years ago. Alma Swensson was 22 when she sent East for copies of Messiah, corralled a few eager pupils and taught them the great oratorio measure by measure. When her festivals were 27 years old the great Lillian Nordica was a soloist and in Lindsborg that occasion has become legendary. The enchanted choristers pulled her carriage through the streets, received in return roses from her bouquet. One youth planted his bloom and it managed to take root, yielded for years the "Nordica rose." In Lindsborg Nordica roses are pressed in memory books...