Inter-City Choral Programs

Inter-City Choral Programs are being favored by the Associated Glee Clubs of America.  To encourage this they have selected for general study the following compositions:  “Omnipotence,” Schubert-Liszt; “On the Sea,” Dudley Buck; “Rolling Down the Rio,” Edward German; “Dance of the Gnomes,” MacDowell; “Deep River,” Burleigh arrangement; “The Bell-Man,” Cecil Forsyth; “Invictus,” Huhn-Lynes; and “Morning,” Speaks-Baldwin.

 Enjoy Webster Booth performing Oley's "Morning":

THE ETUDE MUSIC MAGAZINE – February 1927

Negro Spirituals

                Negro “Spirituals” have been forming recently a part of the weekly lunch-hour musical programs at SouthwarkCathedral of London.  These “spontaneous outbursts of intense religious feeling at camp meetings and revivalist gatherings” have made an appeal to the working people comprising a large part of the attendance of the programs; and among the most popular have been “SwingLow, Sweet Chariot,” “By and By,” “Balm in Gilead” and “Were You There?”

 Enjoy Marion Williams' performance of "Were You There?":

THE ETUDE MUSIC MAGAZINE – February 1927

The Twenty-first Bach Festival

                The Twenty-first Bach Festival at Bethelehem, Pennsylvania, is to be held this year on May 13 and 14, under the leadership of Dr. J. Fred.Wolle.  On the first day the program will be made up of Motets for single and double choruses; while on the second day the usual afternoon and evening divided performance of the monumental “Mass in B Minor” will be given.

Enjoy a performance of Bach's "Mass in B Minor," performed during the 118th season of the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts (BBC Proms 2012), by: Joelle Harvey, soprano; Carolyn Sampson, soprano; Iestyn Davies, counter-tenor; Ed Lyon, tenor; Matthew Rose, bass; Choir of the English Concert; The English Concert, Harry Bicket conducting:

THE ETUDE MUSIC MAGAZINE – February 1927