Word: oratorio
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Benign in his little red skull cap His Eminence Patrick Cardinal Hayes, to whom Pietro Yon had dedicated his oratorio, sat in a box and listened raptly while Tenor Frederick Jagel, the Saint of the evening, sang first as a shepherd boy, then as the man whom God had appointed to defeat the heathenish Druids and convert all Ireland. Outstanding was the rich ecclesiastical background given by 60 Cathedral choristers. Sixty players from the Metropolitan Opera orchestra traced melodies so lush and curving that they might have come from a Puccini opera...
...Sometimes he used his great instrument to strengthen the choruses. More often it was only to blend with the orchestra or round out massive undertones worthy of his subject. Pietro Yon proved years ago that he is a musician before he is an organist. He had not written an oratorio to exhibit his own virtuosity, to show how his feet could travel the pedals, his fingers control the maze of stops...
...Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F. On Saturday evening at 8.15 P.M. over WEAF the Boston Symphony Orchestra, assisted by Jesus Maria Sanroma, will play the Mozart Symphony in E flat major; Professor Edward Burlingame Hill's Concertino for the piano and orchestra; the Prelude to the oratorio "Gerontius" by Sir Edward Elgar in memory of the composer who died last week; and Debussy's fascinating La Mer instead of the new symphony by one Gilere. Toscanini will conclude the Beethoven cycle in New York on Sunday afternoon with the Missa Solemnis, one opus of Beethoven that...
Died. Florence Hinkle, 48, onetime concert & oratorio soprano, wife of old-time Basso Herbert Witherspoon, director of Cincinnati's Conservatory of Music; of a heart ailment; in Cincinnati...
During the next three years he studied in New York on a Juilliard Scholarship, sang with the Lutheran Oratorio Society at Town Hall, with the Bach Choir in the annual festivals at Bethlehem. Pa., and with the Juilliard Orchestra and Opera Company. Now 33. Bob Crawford is musical director of the Newark Music Foundation, radio conductor of the Newark Symphony Orchestra, soloist and occasional conductor of summer concerts at Chautauqua, N. Y. Increasingly busy, he is a licensed airplane pilot; by swift swoops he filled close engagements this summer in Fredonia, N. Y., Mystic, Conn, and Bradford...