Song, Glee, and Choral-related Items

History

Check my book collection also; I have quite a lot of song books. But here are glee club programs, choral items, and related items that aren't books.

The Images

All items are available with both front and back scans, and comments about what is written on the front or back, either by the user or by the publisher, are included below.

1970 Memorial Concert Program

front The Combined Choruses of Mount Holyoke College Memorial Concert Commencement Weekend Saturday, May 30, 10:15 p.m. Lower Lake "The combined Mount Holyoke College choirs, assisted by other members of the college and community, are giving a different sort of commencement concert this year - a memorial concert for those who have died for peace at home and abroad. We have abandoned the traditional spring concert and Senior sing because we feel they are inappropriate to the events of the last four weeks and to the mood of concern over these events which has arisen on our campus and across the nation. But we have not abandoned the concert altogether. When a nation and a world view are being called into question, it is not only political man but artistic man who must state where he stands. This concert is our statement. Because an entire community can come together to express itself in music, we hope this will be your statement too. We have dedicated this concert to our fellow students killed at Kent State and Jackson State, to our soldiers killed in Southeast Asia, to our black brothers killed in the United States while working for peace and freedom, and to Massachusetts state representative James Shea, who killed himself because he saw no hope. This concert is composed of music we will sing and music we hope you will sing with us. All we are saying is give peace a chance. Please join us. The Mount Holyoke College Choirs"

Program Organ Prelude, Lift thine eyes (Mendelssohn), Dona Nobis Pacem (Traditional Round), Stabat Mater (Badings), Hine Ma Tov (Israeli Round), Requiem (Faure), Kum Ba Yah (Spiritual), Nigra Sum (Casals), Turn, Turn, Turn (American Folk Song), Dona, Dona, Dona (Israeli Folk Song), Repleti Sunt (Handl), Pueri Hebraeorum (Thompson), A Plea for One World (Round). "Dona Nobis Pacem", "Hine Ma Tov", "Kum Ba Yah", "Turn, Turn, Turn", and "Dona, Dona, Dona" were all marked as pieces where the audience is invited to sing with the chorus.

The words to the songs "Hine Ma Tov", "Turn, Turn, Turn", and "Dona, Dona, Dona."

A letter that accompanied the program: "May 29, 1970 Dear Alumnae: The events of the past few weeks have caused all of us at Mount Holyoke to intensely explore and discuss national issues and our relationship as an academic community to the outside world. We have also reexamined our own responsibilities to Mount Holyoke and to each other; we would like to continue these dialogues with the members of the Mount Holyoke community who are not present on a day to day basis. Commencement weekend gives us this opportunity. It is perhaps a unique opportunity for it is the only time that we are all - alumnae, parents, trustees, as well as faculty, students, and administration - physically together. But it is also a time of great potential for coming together in mutual understanding and respect of the separate as well as common beliefs, needs, and obligations which we each bring to Mount Holyoke. For these reasons the senior class has altered some of the traditional activities planned for this weekend and is adding more activities to the Commencement weekend calendar. Our wish is to create an atmosphere in which we can listen and speak to one another in an honest effort to communicate ideas. Our purpose will be to listen as well as speak and to come to an understanding of each other as well as one of the issues considered. We hope that you will participate in as many of the events as possible and that you will enjoy Commencement Weekend, 1970. On behalf of the entire Mount Holyoke community we welcome your return to campus. The Senior Commencement Committee"

Iolanthe: Glee Club 1940

front Front cover of program

title page"The Amherst College Glee Club/Mount Holyoke College Glee Club/Amherst Symphony Orchestra Present "Iolanthe" or "The Peer and the Peri" .... Chapin Hall South Hadley February 17 [1940]"

inside page 12: an article about the MHC Glee Club

The Third Mount Holyoke College Choral Series, 1950

front Appears there were eight programs of sheet music printed; this is the seventh one, #3396, for "Ye Fields of Light, Celestial Plains"

1862 Class Song

front "Mount Holyoke Twenty-fifth. 1862 'Animo et Fide.' Class Song." First part of the words.

inside The rest of the words.

The Mount Holyoke College Choral Series

front Appears there were twelve programs of sheet music printed in this series; this is the third one, #2855, for "Praise Our God Who Reigns in Heaven"

The Mount Holyoke College Choral Series

front Appears there were twelve programs of sheet music printed in this series; this is the seventh one, #2898, for "My Friend, 'Tis So Much Wind!"

The Mount Holyoke College Choral Series

front Appears there were twelve programs of sheet music printed in this series; this is the twelfth one, #2903, "Hodie Christus Natus Est"

The Mount Holyoke College Concert Course 1942-1943

front A 24-page guide to a recital by Jarmila Novotna on Feb 5, 1943; mostly ads.

1861 Class Song

front "Mount Holyoke Seminary Class of '61. The Smile of God is Victory. Class Song." First part of the words.

The Second Mount Holyoke College Choral Series

front Appears there were fifteen programs of sheet music printed in this series; this is the tenth one, #2990, "Spread Thy Voice Around"

The Second Mount Holyoke College Choral Series

front Appears there were fifteen programs of sheet music printed in this series; this is the ninth one, #2989, "Endless Pleasure, Endless Love"

1881 Parting Song

front Parting Song, Mount Holyoke Seminary, June 23, 1881.

Commencement Concert by the Glee Club, 1959

front Commencement Concert by the Glee Club, Mount Holyoke College, Saturday evening at eight forty-five, Chapin Auditorium, June 6, 1959

inside Three choruses by Henry Purcell, and two (of four) songs by Johannes Brahms

inside The other two songs (of four, continued from previous page) by Johannes Brahms

inside Three songs by Bela Bartok

inside Three songs by Aaron Copland

back The last of the lyrics to the third Aaron Copland song, and a list of the officers of the Glee Club

Hymn for the Semi-Centennial of Mt. Holyoke Seminary, 1887

front Hymn for the Semi-Centennial of Mt. Holyoke Seminary, written by Sarah De W. Gamwell, class of 1864. Found laid inside a booklet of letters written by members of the class of 1880 to each other in 1890; image here.