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Beyond the intrinsic musical value of the B Minor Mass, the performance of Bach's choral masterpiece tomorrow will have another significance. Sung by the combined choruses of Harvard and Radcliffe, the presentation of the Mass marks the complete emancipation of the college glee club from its traditional limitations. Following the escape from the realm of the football song and the English balled, college organizations have gradually attempted the singing of works of ever increasing magnitude, and now they have attained the level of the B. Minor Mass, perhaps the greatest choral music ever written. And it is owing...
...because the two songs are sung to the same tune that the Chancellor of the Exchequer was heckled last week in the House of Commons about "God Save the King." As a matter of fact the former German anthem (until 1920) was also sung, as is the present Swiss anthem, to this same convenient tune. (It was probably composed in England by one Henry Carey [1692-1743], although his torians are not positive...
...implies "God much Bless the confidence Prince of that either H. M. or H. R. H. can be depended on to do anything to save the nation. Responsibility for action is shifted to the Deity. Indeed the second half of the third stanza of "God Save the King" (seldom sung) has an edge of skepticism...
...program will be of additional interest to all as selected numbers will be illustrated by a special chorus composed of members of the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society. Eleven operettas will be sung in part to illustrate the points of Dr. Davison's address in order to make the lecture more clear and informative...
...Lily Pons said she would and the Zenatellos could not get back to Manhattan fast enough. They hurried to see General Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza. He shrugged his shoulders. He hears of many "discoveries" and this one had had only three years' experience in unimportant opera houses, had never sung at all in Paris. "But," said Madame Gay, "if she fails I pay the passage...