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...Society will also present a concert at Braffle Hall on Thursday, February 27, at 8.30 o'clock. After the Sodality program, the hall will be cleared for dancing until 1 o'clock, with music furnished by an orchestra under the direction of F. U. Anderson 1G. conductor of the Harvard Band, and a member of Roy Lamson's "Harvardians." Tickets will be on sale to students after February 15 at Thayer...
...Harvard University Orchestra, the Pierian Sodality of 1808, this year is conducted by G.W. Woodworth '24 who is assistant conductor of the Glee Club. Its first concert of the spring season will be offered at Milton Academy on February 13. There will be a performance at Brattle Hall, February 26, concerts at the Harvard Club of Boston and the Boston Public Library, and, as the final appearance of the season, a concert at Wellesley in conjunction with the Wellesley College Choir. A visit to Groton Academy has been arranged tentatively...
...princess. Many in the audience reflected that he alone of all great male opera singers has the grace desirable for so fanciful a part. Others, however, wished that he could have achieved more of the heroic, legendary dimensions suggested by the role. Soprano Editha Fleischer sang sensuously. Conductor Tullio Serafin drew out of his orchestra all the scintillating tonality which the composer could have desired of the score...
...Europe Elisabeth Ohms is regarded as one of the foremost singers of the day. A native of Arnhem, Holland, she began to study singing at 16, was graduated from the Amsterdam Conservatory at 19, soon afterward appeared in concerts under Conductor Willem Mengelberg. Her operatic career was chiefly molded in Germany-in Mainz where she sang for two years, in Munich where tourists have flocked to hear her Isolde, her Leonore (Fidelio), her Elektra, her Tosca, her Brünnhildes in the Ring operas. Famed too have been her appearances at London's Covent Garden, at La Scala...
Great was the suspense in a Manhattan concert hall last week. After each burst of applause an expectant silence fell in the audience. Many thought, particularly after the sweeping finale of the Liszt Preludes, that Conductor Willem Mengelberg would speak. He had been presented with a floral wreath. They knew that it was his last performance of the season with the Philharmonic-Symphony.* Their programs told them so. Many suspected, moreover, that it was his final farewell to the Philharmonic and to Manhattan. The rumor had spread that he had criticized the condition in which Conductor Arturo Toscanini had left...