Word: soloists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...held up to students as the perfect example of its type. Finally, as sooner or later happens to all such classics, the Sun's credo was set to music. The composer, NBC Conductor Rosario Bourdon, made a cantata out of it, with chords of booming brass, a soprano soloist and a male chorus, broadcast it (1932) with Soprano Jessica Dragonette. This year, for the Christmas trade, Jessica Dragonette made Is There a Santa Claus? immortal on a Victor phonograph record...
Conducting will be Malcolm R. Holmes '28. while G. Wallace Woodworth '24. will be guest conductor. As a special feature of the program. Putnam Aldrich well known Boston harpsichord soloist, will play two arrangements by Bach. Aldrich has studied abroad with Wanda Landowska and Nadia Bonlanger...
...Yale Club, led by Marshall Bartholomew, will sing a group of American folk songs. The Program Choruses from Croesus and Prinz Jodelet Keiser Shoot, false love Morley Glorius Apollo Webbe (Written for the first Glee Club London, 1700) Chorus from Khovanstichina Moussorgsky (Soloist: Fred Rogosin, 1G) Harvard Follow me down to Carlow Irish Folk Tune Nina Porgolese (Soloist: Donald S. Dever, Jr., '41) Ca' Hawkie Through the Watter North England Folk Tune The Turtle Dove Scotch Tune (Soloist: Hunter H. Comly, '41) More Was Lost at Mohacs Field Hungarian Folk Song Yale Brothers, Sing On Grieg Yale and Harvard American...
Asked how she came by her poise and cultivated musical taste (her only previous public appearances had been as a soloist with the Negro Hampton Institute Choir), Soprano Maynor modestly gave all the credit to her teachers. When she had heard the last concert of the Festival, Dorothy Maynor thanked her hostess for a nice time, took the next train for Manhattan, where she lives with her mother (a Methodist minister's widow) in a small upper-West Side apartment. When she got home she started practicing for her first public recital, at Town Hall in November. Said...
...Shoreham Hotel they waltzed it. The U. S. Marine Band, in Potomac Park, played it straight: Dee deedle dee dum dum, dum dum, dum dum. . . . Dee deedle dee dum dee dum dee dum. . . . Many another orchestra and soloist twanged and blared it. It was even played in Hawaiian style. A local radio station dramatized the life of its author. All this hullabaloo in Washington, D. C. celebrated a work which first took U. S. ears by storm 50 years ago: John Philip Sousa's The Washington Post March...