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BACH CANTATA CLUB TO PERFORM HERE TONIGHT

Woodworth Conducts Concert of 16th And 17th Century Songs--Will Have Three Soloists

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The Fogg Art Museum will be the scene of a concert by the Bach Cantata Club this evening, with G. W. Woodworth '24 as conductor. The program offers selections from five composers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and includes Giovanni Gabrielli, Heinrich Schutz, and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.

The concert opens with "Jubiltate Deo" by Gabrielli, arranged for an eight part chorus. Then follows another piece of Gabrielli's, "Benedictus," for three choirs. The program then proceeds through the works of Schutz, Scarlatti, Da Palestrina, and Carissimi. The final number, "Jephthah" an Oratorio, will be rendered by three soloiste, Amy Browne Townsend, Naney Loring, and James H. Townsend.

Mr. Woodworth, who will wield the baton in this presentation was the joint conductor, with Dr. A. T. Davison '05, of the Harvard Glee Club in its concert in honor of Gustav Holst.

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