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Tomorrow night will be the first time the College has seen its Glee Club this term. Included in the program are choruses from Gilbert and Sullivan's "Patience," a group of American and British folk songs, a Bach cantata, and a performance of the "Tarantella," conducted by composer Professor Randall Thompson...
This first home appearance of the Glee Club will include a performance of the "Tarantella," conducted by Professor Randall Thompson '20, the composer. Other items on the Crimson program will include a Bach cantata, choruses from Gilbert and Sullivan's "Patience," and a group of American and British folk songs...
...less serious half of the concert, Eliot Carter's Tarantella; "Mater, Ades, Florum," precipitated a mass unrest in the graves of La Seala ghosts with its sometimes odd, other times uproarious parody of Latin opera. A tonor with a southern accent high-lighted the successful rendition of a somewhat redundant Gertrude Stein text set to Virgil Thomson music, and the Radcliffe group did nicely with Professor Ballantine's fine blending of music and words in Lake Werna's Water, a work dedicated to Professor Woodworth. A good performance of the Hindemith Choral Fugue ended the program...
...Glee Club, giving a somewhat labored performance, was well received, but the Pops audience was more grateful to it for "Casey Jones, and "Tarantella" than for Valerius' "Prayer of Thans-giving." Kalman Novak '45 -played a brilliant solo in Schumann's Piano Concerto, but this, too, was a little serious for the gay Pops crowd...
...group will then sing the final chorus from "Il Matrimonio Segreto," by Cimarosa, two Italian folk songs, two catches by Purcell, and "The March of the Peers," from Iolanthe," by Sullivan. After singing "Tarantella," written for the Yale Glee Club of 1937 by Randall Thompson and "Casey Jones," arranged for the Harvard Glee Club of 1939 by Edward B. Lawton '34, the Glee Club will conclude by singing "Father William," from Alice in Wonderland," written for last year's Harvard Glee Club by Irving G. Fine '37, who is now assistant conductor of the Glee Club...