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...orchestral director made a special week-end trip to Cambridge in order to work with a chorus from the Glee Club, which is preparing Stravinski's "Oedipus Rex" for two performances with the Philadelphia Orchestra in the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, on April 21 and 22. Shortly after the finish of the practice Stokowski left for Philadelphia. He was the guest of Dr. A. T. Davison '06, director of the Glee Club, during his stay here...
...Monday, April 21, and Tuesday, April 22, approximately 100 members of the Harvard Glee Club will sing the chorus parts in Stravinski's "Oedipus Rex", which will be staged in New York City at that time. A tentative list of 60 names of those who will go down has been drawn up, and the persons notified. The Club has been rehearsing all fall, while letters from Stravinski have intimated that he will himself attend the rehearsals toward the end of February...
...return to my intellectual wanderings to hear Professor Hill lecture on Rimsky-Korsakov in Music 4d. Aside from the fact that Rimsky-Korsakov was the teacher of Stravinski, which in itself would sufficiently arouse my interest to make me walk all the way to the Paine Music Hall, I know that Professor Hill will give certain illustrated selections from Rimsky-Korsakov on the piano himself...
...waltz, polka, quadrille, gavotte, varsovien, etc. And these are not proposed as substitutes for all present modes, but as forms to be interspersed with them. In a well-devised musical program, the architectural music of Bach or Mozart is likely to appear with that of Debussy or Stravinski; the formless needs a background of form to make it so much as interesting to an intelligent enjoyer. The barn-dances, upon which you dwell, are of course merely the play-boy accompaniment of a period and have a folklorist sort of interest; they are not justly taken as typical...
...Monday afternoon, Mr. Brailowaki, of wide and fine reputation, will play music ranging from Liszt to Stravinski, in Jordan Hall...