Word: cantata
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...cantata of the "Golden City" was given at Lasell last Wednesday...
...again in 1889 he visited Italy. In the spring of 1890 his "North Shore Watch and Other Poems" appeared, followed in the autumn by "Studies in Letters and Life." In the former volume was the poem "My Country" which Professor Paine used as the text for his cantata, rendered in 1888 at the great Cincinnati musical festival. Mr. Woodberry formerly contributed to the Atlantic and now writes frequently for the literary department of the Nation. He lives in Boston, spending his summers at his old home at Beverly...
Appleton Chapel was filled to over-flowing yesterday afternoon when Garret's Thanksgiving Cantata was given by the united choirs of St. Paul's Church and Harvard University. Prof-Peabody opened the services by reading the Thanksgiving proclamation of the Governor. After a prayer and the reading of a Psalm the Cantata was begun and carried through without intermission, the congregation joining in the hymns...
...bass solo of the Cantata was sung by Mr. Richardson, of St. Paul's Church, while the soprano parts were sung by Arthur Greene, of St. Paul's, and Willie McDonald, of Appleton Chapel. The beautiful trio of the Cantata was sung by Messrs Greene, Wilcox and Chipman...
...Thanksgiving Vespers will take place this afternoon at five o'clock instead of Thursday. A Harvest Cantata, the words written by J. F. Waller, L. L. D., and the music by George Garrett, M. A., Mvs. D., will be given by the united choirs of St. Paul's Church, Boston, and Harvard University. It was the old English custom to have songs and short cantatas at Harvest time and this was written for that purpose. The soprano solo will be sung by the boy soprano of St. Paul's Church, who has a beautiful voice; and there will be various...