Word: yon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rest of the program, which the Glee Club hopes to sing alone, the following songs will be heard: Handel's "Let Their Celestial Concerts All unite"; the English folk song "Spanish Ladies"; Brahms' "Three Love Songs": "Nightingale, Thy Sweetest Song," "A Tremer's in the Branches," and "From Yon Hills"; the Chorale and Finale from Wagner's "Die Meistersinger"; and the choruses from Gilbert and Sullivan's "Iolanthe...
...Miracle de St. Nicholas," a French chorale, with Courtland Canby '36 and John H. Eric '37 as soloists; "Spanish Ladies," an English folksong, with John L. Bishop '37 as soloist; three love songs from Opus 65 by Brahms: "Nightingale, Thy Sweetest Song"; "A Tremor's in the Branches"; "From Yon Hills," a chorus from "Iolanthe" by Sir Arthur Sullivan...
...They're spoiling you, that's what," he declared ponderously. "Spoiling yon. But I do like your burlesque interviews. In my day a cooch queen were more than she would now, but that only heightened the suspense. We boys had to work harder then...
Benign in his little red skull cap His Eminence Patrick Cardinal Hayes, to whom Pietro Yon had dedicated his oratorio, sat in a box and listened raptly while Tenor Frederick Jagel, the Saint of the evening, sang first as a shepherd boy, then as the man whom God had appointed to defeat the heathenish Druids and convert all Ireland. Outstanding was the rich ecclesiastical background given by 60 Cathedral choristers. Sixty players from the Metropolitan Opera orchestra traced melodies so lush and curving that they might have come from a Puccini opera...
...performance the slender little composer sat almost hidden behind the organ console at the far right of the stage. Sometimes he used his great instrument to strengthen the choruses. More often it was only to blend with the orchestra or round out massive undertones worthy of his subject. Pietro Yon proved years ago that he is a musician before he is an organist. He had not written an oratorio to exhibit his own virtuosity, to show how his feet could travel the pedals, his fingers control the maze of stops...