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Assisted by the Simmons College Glee Club, the Pierian Sodality of 1808, the University orchestra, will give its annual spring concert in Paine Hall, Friday evening, May 3.
The first performance of a Purcell Dance suite for strings and flute, arranged by Malcolm H. Holmes '28, conductor of the orchestra, will feature the concert. Among many hitherto unknown manuscripts belonging to the crown in the British Museum in London, Holmes discovered the work last summer while occupied in research.
Mozart, Bach on Program
Mozart's Symphony No. 35 in D major: Pergolesi's "Stabat Mater," presented with the Simmons College Glee Club and with Janie Steinseld '43, alto, and Hedwig Miehle '41, soprano, as soloists; Bach's "Wir Glauben all' an einem Gott" arranged and conducted by Ellis Kohs 1G; the Purcell Dance Suite with solo flute, Gabriel Jackson '42; and Beethoven's Overture to Prometheus comprise the program.
Sometimes known as the "Giant Fugue," the choral prelude, "Wir Glauben all' an einem Gott," was transcribed for orchestra in 1936 by Kohs, and has since then been played a number of times by the University of Chicago Orchestra, the New York Civic Orchestra under Edgar Schenkman, and the Illinois Symphony Orchestra.
Lyle Ring will direct the Simmons College Glee Club of fifty voices, the two soloists in the "Stabat Mater," and an a capella group of 14 voices, which will sing the other solos.
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