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Last Tuesday evening the Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra in their annual concert at Symphony Hall. The work selected was Beethoven's Missa Solemnis. Soloists were Jeanette Vreeland, soprano; Kathryn Meisle, alto; John Pricbe, tenor; and Mack Harrell, bass. Dr. Koussevitzky conducted...
...surprising that a work of such beauty and power could emerge from the conditions surrounding its composition. Whether intentionally or no, Beethoven indulged in considerable shady dealing over the Missa Solemnis. After promising the score to some six different publishers, he finally presented it to a seventh; and a contract with the symphony orchestra in London for exclusive rights did not deter him from presenting it first on the continent...
...Radcliffe Choral Society will join the Glee Club next Monday evening for the first full rehearsal on Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis." The annual concert with the Yale Glee Club will be presented Friday evening, November...
Work will begin immediately on Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis", which is scheduled definitely for performance with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the spring. Not since 1927 has the Glee Club presented this composition, (this was on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Beethoven's death), nor had it been presented for many years prior to that...
...Langdon Warner, and assisted by Mr. E. Power Biggs, organist, will give a concert at the Germanic Museum at 8:30 o'clock. The program will include "Concerts No. 2 in B flat," Handel; "1ch ruf" zu Herr Jesu Christ," Bach; G minor and G major fugues, Bach; and "Missa Brevis in D." Mozart...