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Although only old American melodies and college songs were sung last night, a new set of songs is now being collected that will include some new songs as well as a few old English favorites. It is also planned to have the choruses sing "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard", a college song written and composed by two members of the class of 1918. The competition for leaders of these hall choruses will start next week. Dr. A. T. Davison '06, director of the University Glee Club, will occasionally be present to supervise the work. The rehearsals which will come once...
...turn one light song, one college song, and one prize song, the latter being rendered in succession by each club. The University's selections were; for the light song, "Dainty, Fine, Sweet Nymph" by Morley; and for the college air, "Up the Street". "Give a Rouse", by Bantock, was sung by all the competing colleges as the Prize selection...
...Song Without Words" written for Mme. Koshetz seems to bear this statement out. In the weird middle section with its dissonant rustling of strings, which would tax the pitch of any singer, the voice rang true. The Moussorgsky "Dance and Revery" from "The Fair of Sorotchinsk" was sung with great dash and vigor, although Liadow's orchestration was ineffective. The orchestral accompaniment of these songs, through no fault of Mr. Monteux, might have been more even...
...twenty-two songs which will be sung tonight are of a much higher type than the "Solomon Levi" and "I've been working on the railroad" of the not so distant past. The repertoires will not be classical by any means--the names of Brahm or Palestrina or Rubinstein are not likely to appear on the program--and while the music will be of a lighter vein than is usually associated with the Glee Club, it will be decidedly of the better sort. If the Club had nothing more to its credit than the responsibility for this change, it would...
...competition for both the words and music of the class song will begin in a few days, and the prize song to be sung by all three halls will be picked. In addition to the prize-song, old college tunes will be used in the competition...