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...Musical Russia Choir (Sun. 3 p. m. CBS) sings Vaughan Williams' Fantasy on Christmas Carols, Fuerst's transcription of Tchaikovsky's Legend, three carols by Peter Warlock, three chorals from Bach's Christmas Oratorio with the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. John Barbirolli conducts the orchestra in the overture to Handel's Messiah, Beethoven's Fourth Symphony...
...Christmas Oratorio" of J.S. Bach will be presented at the Fogg Museum tomorrow evening at 8:15 o'clock, by the Bach Cantata Club...
...Goosens's unhackneyed programme comprises three works new to these concerts and a rarely played Tschaikovsky symphony. The first number, Handel's Overture to the "Occasional Oratorio" (the "Occasion" having been to celebrate the second Stuart rising against the House of Hanover in 1745), is a powerful and exhilarating piece which suffers in performance only from the cruelly high and long trumpet parts typical of the early 18th century. There are three movements: a grave introduction and quasi-fugal allegro, a fine slow movement with oboe solo, and a rousing finale...
...orchestrated composition American Sampler was broadcast over the Columbia network by Conductor Howard Barlow. Last week, at the annual six-day Music Festival at Worcester, Mass., Composer Dett made musical news again. For the festival's opening program Conductor Albert Stoessel chose Dett's massive, spiritual-born oratorio The Ordering of Moses. Previously performed in Cincinnati and Manhattan, this tempestuous choral and orchestral work, based on Exodus, came near being the hit of Worcester's festival...
Composer George Frederic Handel gave the first performance of his Messiah, most popular oratorio of all time. The present opera house dates from...