YALH ALUMNI WHEEKLY
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‘“ Hora Novissima” in England.
Professor Horatio. W. Parker’s sacred
cantata “Hora Novissima,”’ which was
given as the chief number of the great
musical festival in Worcester, England,
Sept. 14, met with the almost unani-
mous approval of the English critics.
The London Times, in speaking of the
work, said: :
“The climax of the festival was
reached yesterday morning, when pro-
ceedings began in the Cathedral with
the first performance in England of the
American work ‘‘Hora Novissima,” by
Mr. Horatio W. Parker, organist of
Trinity Church, Boston, and Professor
PROF. HORATIO W. PARKER.
of Music at Yale University. Profes-
sor Parker’s name has been quite un-
known here hitherto, though an English ,
firm published the vocal score of this
work, which bears the opus number 30,
in its composer’s list, some years ago.
As a matter of fact, the oratorio has
been in print since 1892, and since Pro-
fessor Parker is but thirty-six years of
age and apparently has not yet reached
the zenith of his creative abilitv, it was
high time that his early work. should
have been produced here if ever it was
to be produced. Composers ripen very
rapidly, and there is always consider-
able danger of their early work being
overshadowed at least, if not entirely
eclipsed, by their later compositions.
Even now rumor has it that we have
not heard the best fruits of Professor
Parker’s brain, and that a large oratorio
on the subject of St. Christopher shows
more clearly the present state of his
musical faculties. As Professor Parker
was a pupil of the Munich Conserva-
torium, it was natural that one should
look for great contrapuntal skill in his
music, for it were difficult to discover
a pupil of Professor Rheinberger who
was not a master of all the arts of
ingenious contrapuntal device. Coun-
terpoint there is in abundance in every
number of the score, and counterpoint,
too, that looks a little academic on
paper; but in music, as in other mat-
ters, one cannot judge by appearances,
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and in sound and effect there is not
the slightest trace of academicism in
Professor Parker's work. Even in the
magnificent double chorus, “Stant Syon
Atria,” the effect of which is gorgeous,
there was no smell of the lamp, no
trace of midnight oil; nor in the beau-
tiful ancient, yet very modern, chorus
a capella “Urbs Syon Unica” was there
a bar to which the most fanatical
anti-academic could take exception.
Throughout the entire oratorio hardly
an effect was missed in the choral writ-
ing. and here above all Professor
Parker proved himself a master. His
treatment of the chorus is remarkable,
yet there is none of the common
modern tendency to strain or even to
seek after effect. His effects come
quite naturally, and he works up to
superb climaxes with perfect ease. Pre-
cisely the same remarks apply, too, to
his writing for quartets. There is no
less than three quartets in the work,
and it is no easy matter to single out
any one of them for especial praise.
Certainly they were all very finely sung
by Mme. Albani, Miss Ada Crossley,
Mr. Edward Lloyd, and Mr. Plunket
Greene, to each of whom fell also a
solo.”
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et
Opening of the Year at Harvard.
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CAMBRIDGE, Sept. 30—The most notice-
able additions to Harvard’s buildings
at this, the beginning of: her 263d year,
are the Brooks House, a memorial to the
late Bishop Phillips Brooks, devoted to
the religious societies of the University,
and the completion of Randall Hall, the
new dining hall, which accommodates
about six hundred students.
Inside the Newell Gate on Soldiers
Field, the athletic committee is building -
a house of brick and stone which is to
contain a reception room and quarters
The new boat house
slowly.
for a gatekeeper.
has progressed ver
In the Faculty there have been the
following new appoinments; Prof.
Sanger of Washington University, St.
Louis, has been elected Professor of
Chemistry; Dr. Asaph Hall has been
made lecturer on Celestial Mechanics
and Messrs Irving Babbit, N. H.
Schofield, J. B. Woodworth, C. Palache
and F. Russell have been chosen mem-
bers of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Among the professors who are to be
absent on their sabbatical year are
Professors White, Emerton, Gross,
Wolf, James and Osgood. :
As yet little can be definitely said in
regard to the number of students for
the new college year, but it is generally
understood that the class, while it will
be larger, will not greatly exceed the
number in former years.
In the Medical School a new arrange-
ment in teaching the subjects of the
first two years will be followed. The
first year class will devote the entire
first half year to the study of Anatomy
and correlated subjects, and the second
half to Physiology and its correlated
subjects. Second year students will
study Pathology and Bacteriology until
February and will spend the last four
months in preparing for clinical work
of the third and fourth years. It is
thought that this logical arrangement of
the subjects will enable the student to
concentrate his energies to a much
greater advantage than he can when his
daily attention is divided among several
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laboratory work instead of making the
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be an increase, probably about 75. The
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