For any vagabond who enjoys good music, today offers opportunities, which come all too seldom in the life of a peripatetic seeker after higher learning. But today he may revel in the sweet regions of melody even as early when he has scarcely rubbed the sleep out of his eyes, for at 10 o'clock in Professor Spaldings course in Music 4, a string quarter will play a number of selections from Mozart.
This evening however, comes an even greater opportunity for the vagabond, when the Glee Club gives its second concert of the year in Symphony Hall, with Dusolina Giannini as guest artist. It is hard, when looking over the club's program, to know where to begin in singling out individual numbers for special comment. Perhaps one of the most striking is a composition "Ave, Verum Corpus", but Josquin Des Pres, a fifteenth century musician of the Netherlands. Coming just at a time when the technique of counterpoint was being developed, the work is made up essentially of two melodies that float like delicate silver threads now in harmony and now distinct, but always clear until finally they disappear almost imperceptibly as if wafted away in a breath of air.
Quite different in spirit is a group of four choruses from Gilbert and Sullivan's "Patience". Music, it has been said, is the most emotional of the arts, but the emotion of laughter has perhaps never been so well expressed as when Sir Arthur Sullivan succeeded in incorporating in his melodies the humor of Gilbert's words.
More words, however, fail utterly to convey any adequate impression of the music. The vagabond must go to hear it for himself. And certainly, with Glee Club concerts to judge from, he will not be disappointed.
Lectures of interest today are:
10 O'clock
"The Peace Negotiations of 1782", Dr. Baxter, Sever 35, History 13.
"Primitive Government", Professor Dickenson, Sever 18, Government 16b.
"Moderately Complex Animals", Professor Parker, Geological Lecture Room, Biology A.
11 O'clock
"Rome", Professor Murray, Harvard 3, English 39.
"Antecedents of Romanticism", Professor Howard, Germanic Museum, German 25b.
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