Word: oratorio
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Wodell, well-known as a conductor of Oratorio concerts in Symphony Hall, Boston, is meeting applicants for the new People's Philharmonic Choir on Sundays between 4.30 and 5.30 o'clock at Recital Hall, New England Conservatory Building, Boston. The tests which he conducts are very moderate, the chief requisites being an agreeable voice and an "ear" for music rather than the ability to sing a solo...
...following order of service will be given: Prelude: (a) Pastoral Symphony Messiah"), (from "The Handel (b) Adoration, Miss Stickney Borowski Processional: Hymn 106. "Adeste Fidelis." Carol, "The First Nowell," Traditional The Sentences and the Invocation, followed by Our Lord's Prayer. "Slumber Song" ("Christmas Oratorio") Bach Miss O'Connell. Carol, "What Child is This?" Lesson from Holy Scripture. Violin solos: Traditional (a) Viennese Melody, Gaertner-Kreisler (b) Liebeslied, Miss Stickney. Kreisler Carol, "God Rest You, Merry men," Gentle-Traditional Hymn 105, "O Little Town of Bethlehem," St. Louis Address by President Fitch, Contralto solos: (a) "The Christmas Tree," Cornelius...
...seen the Michigan leader, apparently boxed by substitutes on the side lines, leap high into the air and with a deft gesture of the index finger draw from his cheering section a perfect salvo, sometimes two salvi, of applause. I have seen him handle the Michigan "locomotive," a clumsy oratorio at best, with a deftness of forearm movement and an utter absence of physical effort which transformed it into a veritable octavo volume of sound with deckled edges...
Cesar Franck was a Belgian composer, who was of German stock, and later become a naturalized Frenchman, upon being appointed professor of the organ at the Paris Conservatoire. "Les Beatitudes," an oratorio composed between 1870 and 1880 was perhaps his greatest work...
Professor W. R. Spalding '87, of the Music Department, will repeat his lecture on "The Birth of Secular Instrumental Music and the Beginnings of Opera and Oratorio," at the Lowell Institute this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. The lecture is the third in the series on "The Evolution of the Art of Music." The next lecture in the series will be given on Friday evening at 8 o'clock...