NINTH SYMPHONY MOVEMENT CLOSES BEETHOVEN FESTIVAL

With the closing of the Beethoven Centenary Festival last night, the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society completed the triumph achieved in the Mass by an excellent presentation of the stirring chorus in the last movement of the Ninth Symphony. The chorus, somewhat smaller than that which took part in the Mass sang the difficult musical setting of Schiller's Ode to Joy, with the finest of technique and intelligence of expression which might have been expected from the work which this admirably trained group had done earlier in the week. As always much honor must go to Dr. Davison and Mr. Woodworth for their excellent work in training the chorus and to Mr. Koussevitaky who, by his wonderful personality and understanding was able to get the beat from them as from the orchestra.