Word: songs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard Glee Club will sing: "At Sea," by Buck, football songs, and the "Serenade," by Borodine. After the award of the prize the final number will be a rendering of the "Stein Song," by the one hundred and twenty voices of the competing colleges...
...choice of compositions for a concert whereby one tour de force completely obliterates all the others, or at least totally ruins their effects. Any sensitive concert goer will say how true this is; but luckily, it is for the most part a vanishing evil. Notorious exceptions are the average song-recitals, when the "artist" places songs of all times and nations in a senseless and shameless promiscuity...
...melody; thus, the first virtue of this music is its variety. And furthermore it is charming and melodious music, sometimes a bit evasive as to tonality, but thoroughly spontaneous, and in at least a few instances quite distinguished--as in the opening theme of the dance used with the song "Modern Dances." "Conventionality," "Any Ragtime Tune," "My Own American Girl," and the "Finale" to the second act are much above the average. It is regrettable that occasionally the music lay in a range not convenient for the singers, and that the orchestra was not always adequate. Transposition will remedy...
...Francis Rogers '91 will give a song recital in the Harvard Club of Boston tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock, assisted by Mr. J. A. Colburn at the piano. The concert will be open to ladies accompanied by members, and refreshments will be served to members on the second floor...
...concert at the Boston Harvard Club this evening at 8 o'clock. The program is as follows: 1. Veritas, Densmore. 2. Two Hungarian Dances, Brahms. 3. Overture to Iphigenia in Aulis, Gluck 4. March des Petites Soldats de Plomb, Pierne 5. Selection, Pinafore, Sullivan 6. (a) Sandman's Song and Evensong from Haensel and Gretel. Humperdinck (b) Minuet and Barcellona from Les Contes d'Hoffman, Offenbach 7. March-Pomp and Circumstance, Elgar...