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Soloists will be Herbert V. Kibrick '38, singing "O Gladsome Light," by A. T. Davison; Nixon de Tarnowsky '35 singing "Brennan on the Moor," an English folk song; Courtland Canby '36 and John H. Eric '37, who will sing "Le Miracle de Saint Nicolas," a French carol; and John L. Bishop '37, singing "Spanish Ladies," an English folk song...
...last evening in Sanders Theatre, the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral, directed by G. Wallace Woodworth, roused a rather stodgy audience out of its lethargy by the sheer brilliance of several of the compositions, which ranged from Weelkes and Allegri to Holst and Harvard's Archibald T. Davison...
...Davison's anthem, "O Gladsome Light," was written in memory of Gustav Holst, who died last year, and was a personal friend of Dr. Davison, and through him, of the Harvard Glee Club. Somewhat reminiscent of Holst in its harmonic treatment, this anthem, sung by the Glee Club alone, built up an intensity of feeling which blazed out into a magnificent climax in the last verse...
...joint concert with the Radcliffe Choral Society the Glee Club will present a program of classical and folk music in the Sanders Theatre tomorrow evening at 8.15 o'clock. G. Wallace Woodworth will conduct, with Dr. Archibald T. Davison assisting in a special number by Gustav Holst...
Holst was a visiting lecturer here in the winter of 1932 when he was made an honorary member of the Glee Club and the Choral Society. Tomorrow the Club will sing "O Gladsome Light," a piece composed by Davison, as a memorial to him. In addition, Holst's "Dirge for Two Veterans" will be sung under the direction of Dr. Davison accompanied by brass and drums from the Boston Symphony Orchestra...