Brown and White Vol. 14 no. 23

              saturday dec 15 minstrel show grand opera house 8.15 p m sunday dec 16 y m c a meeting 6.30 addressed by w h tinker wednesday dec 19 glee club finals 2.15 christmas hall friday dec 21 christmas vaca tion begins 12.30 p m thursday january 3 8.30 christmas vacation ends prof wolle s work at california the following is an extract from an article in one of the san fran cisco dailies : " handel's messiah the olden composer's masterpiece was ideally rendered at the hearst greek theatre university of california yesterday afternoon under the direction of prof wolle there was a chorus of 230 voices not a big chorus for a great oratorio production as oratorio choruses go but it was splendidly trained and everybody in it was able to sing everybody in it did sing too and with professor wolle smg the university orchestra of sixty-five pieces already known as the best orchestra that the west has ever been able to call its own as director everybody in it had to maintained a perfect balance of in strumental music with the vocal ; and the whole effect was worthy of handel and a glory to the uni versity of california and its distin guished professor of music prof wolle it will be remember ed was university organist until two years ago when he accepted the chair of music at the university of california found found in the chapel after the rendition of palestrina's 1 mass tuesday evening a lady's bracelet the owner may receive the same at the president's office by describing property all glee club candidates who were not present last saturday meet in christmas hall wednes day dec 19 at 2.15 p m this is important as these trials will be final rifeger hunt ex-'c>7 is in town this week lie is now located at minersville n y before an audience of lehigh students and towns people that tax ed to the utmost the capacity of spacious packer memorial church the marcelli mass by paiestrina was rendered with notable success by the paiestrina choir of allentown under prof c a marks of muh lenberg college the event ful filled all that the most sanguine had hoped for the rendition of this old mass by this modern choir was something more than unique ; it was a revelation of simplicity sweetness and reverence of spirit every one in the large audience when the last note had died away must have coincided with the senti ment of thanks to conductor marks and his eight singers that president drinker expressed in his short introductory address it was a privilege indeed to have been pre sent at this splendid rendition following president drinker professor marks gave an introduc tory talk which included a short biographical sketch of paiestrina and an account of the circum stances that led to the writing by him of three masses designed to retain the good in polyphonic music while adding a reverence that the popular compositions lacked in outlining the purpose and scope of the marcelli mass the speaker by comparing it with other types pre pared the audience for the style of music to be presented a few words told the history of the paies trina choir of allentown — how this group of singers who had first sung one of the numbers of the marcelli mass as a lecture illu stration had continued and learned the entire mass with the result now of their oublic presentation of it it was without accompaniment that the choir rendered the mass beginning with the magnificent kyrie to many it seemed that this number was the finest of the entire list particularly the christe eleison passage in which the beautiful harmony of the successive voices is beyond description the gloria came next and then the lengthy credo divided by a brief intermission into two parts the printing on the program of the were sung together with an english latin in which all the numbers continued on page three apropos of the rendition of the marcelli mass the following might be of interest : one of p'alestrina's noblest com positions his stabat mater has recently played a prominent role in deciding between two musical theories of harmony the modern theory of harmony is based largely on the principles enunciated by heilmholtz in his " lenre von den tonempfindungen in this work he contrasts modern music with the old church music and par ticularly with palestrina's helm holtz was not able applying his principles to recognize the rela tions of tine chords which make much of palestrina's music so beau tiful and characteristic he re marks of the first line of the sta bat mater : here we find a series of chords of the most various pitches from a sharp to f sharp apparently scattered promiscuously amongst each other contrary to all our rules of modulation we also in the second place miss prin cipally that observance of the rela tions of consecutive chords in summing up his discussion helm holtz says : although we recognize in palestrina's and in gabriel s com positions a fine artistic effect and in so far must grant them to have command of harmony yet there is the brown and white lehigh university south bethlehem pa 5 friday december 14 1906 calendar no 23 a grand success palestrina's marcelli mass vol xiv translation facilitated the following of the singing by the auditors sanctus benedictus and agriu dei all sung with admirable restraint and precision composed the , remaining numbers the closest attention of the audience was held throughout the entire pro gram the short intermissions fur nishing all the necessary relaxation from the tension of listening the personnel of the paiestrina choir is as follows : c a marks conductor pro fessor of the theory and history of music muhlenberg college aillentown pa conductor of the allentown oratorio society e b kocher accompanist members of the choir : edith m sieger edna i gauss annie c pvoeder emma f kramlich mabel e stine charles w rau ralph e kline howard j wiegner athletic committee meeting a meeting of the executive committee of the l u athletic committee was held in xmas hall tuesday afternoon the elections of lawyer landis and zollinger as captain manager and assistant manager respectively of the foot ball team were approved the varsity l was awarded to the following men they having played in six or more halves aman burlingame fulton hoppin law yer macintosh mercur shorkley sheridan spiers street treat troutman westerbeke the monogram l u f b was awarded to bonander cannon archer wigton wallower haug landis tressler e c smith h d smith mandell porter ander son komara schaeffer olcott 19 10 class numerals were awarded to the following men who played on the freshman foot ball team on founders day : gorman lawrence lawson billheimer ivlurname ewing baker leh smith miller treat simpson royal the following partial basket i ball schedule was approved : jan 5 albright at south bethle hem jan 10 dartmouth at south bethlehem jan 19 stevens at south bethle hem feb i wesleyan at south bethlehem feb 6 swarthmore at swarth more feb 9 rutgers at south bethle hem . feb 14 penna state at south hethlehem feb 2y u of p at philadelphia mar 9 swarthmore at south bethlehem mar 16 manhattan at south befhiehem in addition to these games will probably be arranged l with army at west point and the navy at anna polis danny coogan was re-engaged as base ball coach for the coming season