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...Boston Herald of March 23, Mr. Philip Hale expends over five paragraphs, and much space in the Symphony program, in attempting to prove his contention that Beethoven's "Missa Solomnis" has little spiritual value after all. To Mr. Hale part of the Mass gives "an effect of infinite labor and vain endoavor and is not an uplifting of the hearer's soul." One almost expects him to say that the music might just as well have been written to the words of almost any Gerruan folk song...
Ludwig van Beethoven really needs very little apology for having composed the "Missa Solemnis" and the denial of its spiritual inspiration smacks of more shallow pretext and sophistry...
...many people it is distressing that the unsurpassed sublimity of the Catholic Church should have inspired so much of beauty in art. The critics, in order not to seaudalize the liberal intellectuals of Boston, find it necessary to make excuses in an attempt to justify the existence of the "Missa Solemnis". It seems to them that Beethoven not only had the bad taste to be a Catholic, but he also had the unpardonably bad taste of composing one of his very greatest musical compositions for the celebration of High Mass and then what does he do but delicate...
...realization that such attractions come only once in a number of months, has forced our wanderer into a temporary seclusion. For any aspiring vagabonds who have arranged their affairs however let them realize that to attend any musical events would be to invite anti-climax after Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis" two days ago and Mr. Whiting's exquisite rendering of the Kreutzer Sonata last night...
Ravina attended the performance of the "Missa Solemnis" yesterday evening, he Vagabond will continue the gratification of his musical sense by going to Paine Hall this evening at 8.15 o'clock, where an exposition of chamber music under the direction of Mr. Arthn Whiting is to be held...