Word: organist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to this Britten cantata, which is performed only rarely, the choir will sing Organ Magnificat, by Samuel Sheibt. Both numbers on the program will be conducted by John R. Ferris, University Organist and Choir-master...
...good-sized audience of just under 300 persons braved the sticky heat in Memorial Church last night for the second of two organ recitals by Lois Pardue, Assistant University Organist and Organist of the Summer School...
...French organ program was given in Memorial Church last night by Lois Pardue, Assistant University Organist and Organist of the Summer School. In keeping with the French tradition of "historical concerts," she covered over two centuries of composition, starting with Baroque works by Couperin, de Grigny and Clerambault...
...century, the French nation has taken more eagerly and seriously to organ composition than any other in the world. Mrs. Pardue consequently performed four recent works. Improvisatoy bombast characterizes the Hymne d'actions de graces by the blind organist Jean Langlais. Messaien's fine Banquet celeste, though an early work, bears the clear stamp of its composer, who has refused to adhere to any "school." It is seraphic, and mystically inconclusive. Jehan Alain's lucid Phrygian Ballade and familiar Litanies point up the great loss we suffered when this young composer was tragically killed in World...
July 8: Lois Pardue, Organist of the Summer School and Assistant University Organist, Harvard University...