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Several popular pieces will be repeated tonight. "Tarantella," by Randall Thompson '20 will be sung for a second time this spring. Based on a poem by Hilaire Belloc, this number was written for the Yale Glee Club in 1937. The Choruses from "Patience" will also get a repeat performance...
Most of the numbers on the program rocked Memorial Church on its heels, the old building sending back echoes of protest. Randall Thompson's "Tarantella," a sultry Basque setting, was particularly strong in diction and attack, something for which the Club is famous. Singing out-doors is a real test of such polish: Tuesday's audience heard every word. The concert ended with four choruses from "Patience," and afterwards members of the University joined the Glee Club on the steps to sing football songs. Merriment prevailed, and the spring counterpart of the football rallies had once more...
Works to be sung this evening are Harvard Hymn (Paine); Crucifixus (Lotti): Pslam 121 (Milhaud); Two songs from Appollonian Harmony: Corydon--a Pastoral (Arne) and bacchanal (Cocchi); Tarantella (Thompson); Gently, Johnny (Bingham); and choruses from Patience (Sullivan...
...first, the audience in Pittsburgh's Syria Mosque was stunned by De Sabata's strange choreography on the podium-he seemed to be dancing everything from a tarantella to a sabre dance. But by the time he had driven Berlioz' old warhorse around the course, whipping it for all it was worth, the audience couldn't get to its feet fast enough. The passion and power he found in César Franck's over-explored symphony won him another wild ovation before intermission. And by the time his program was over, Victor de Sabata...
Folk songs composed the bulk of the program, numbers from Latin America, from England and America, and from the Yale Song Book. The first portion ended with a swirl in Randall Thompson's "Tarantella," conducted by the composer and sung enthusiastically, if not distinctly, by the two Glee Clubs. After the intermission, the Yale group did a moving interpretation of the cowboy song "Old Paint," but they waited till their "Deitsch Company," an old drinking song, to bring down the house. The double yodel featured here was at once carefree and harmonious, and the Harvard group, a more Glee Club...