Roxbury Latin Glee Club with Guiseppe deLellis 1949

Glee Club 1949 (R)

p 52 Giuseppe deLellis organized Glee Glub in 1946 Subject: Giuseppe deLellis,ROXLat glee club Date: Sat, 10 Oct 199 friend Giuseppe deLellis of West Newton. I may share this when completed with Mrs. DeLellis and her family, who are at 27 Harding Road. My father and i both took piano lessons l947-l951 and l967-l969. Giuseppe delellis perfomed Rachmaninoff and Mozart piano concertos with Boston Pops and Arthur Fiedler. In music classes at Roxbury Latin, the recordings of the Carnegie Collection were an amportant resoure.I reember Toscanini conducting Schbubert Great C Major, the Frank symphony d minor -bach Mass in b minor - Giuseppe stressed the power ofm"sanctus,sanctus, sanctus arlesienne suite of Bizet, Lt. Kije suite of prokoffiev, La Mer of Debussy. I have put Year Book 1953 photos of my family memoir website at http://www.ccilink.com/photobook -- these include good photos of giuseppe with the Roxbury latin and Beaver glee clubs. He later taught at Dean Junior College near his original home in Franklin l957-l969. He studied with Nadia Boulanger Paris and at Longy School Cambridge. I heard him perform with violiniist Faith Quesada Costa Rican at Waltham library the Franck violin-piano sonata.Puerto Rico pianist Jesus Maria SanRoma and his brother in Newton were particular friends of the deLellis family. My initial emphais where I request help is in recollecting songs performed by the Roxbury Latin and other Glee Clubs - here are a few (Based on Ecclesisticus or Wiusdom of Sirach in Bible Apochrypha is the first: Let us now praise famous men And our father that begot us Such as did bear rule in teir kingdoms Men renowned for their power Leaders of the people by their councils and their knowledge Such as found out musical tunes and recited verses in writing. ASll these were honored in their generations and were the glory of the times. And some there be that have no memoirial Who are buried as though they had never been Their bodies are buried in peace But their Name liveth fore-evermore." Old Abram Brown is Dead and gone To every man ther openeth a way and ways and a way Hallehluia chorus Handel The monks marck - Wales -them of Haydn Piano students included James Rumrill Randy Hare, David Spectre, Robert Murray, John Barrett - Clark Heath and Ross Holloweay played stringed instruments 0- violin or cello.-I remember Bob Murray working on Percy Grainer;s "Cpountry Gardens" Some of the piano music I worked on with Giusepppe included Schubert Moment Musical in f minor Op. 94 #3, Standchen or Serenade original and Lisztg arrangment- Military MaRCH IN D, piano sonatas especially op. 147 B major and B flat posthumous, and Schubert-Liszt arrangements of Ave Maria, Erlkonig, Die Forelle, Das Wandern ist das Muller's Lust"- Beethoven Minuet in G and PATHETQUE PIAN SONATA MOZART TURKISH RONDO AND MANY SONATAS. HAYDEN MANY SONATATA AND PIANO CONCERTO PIANO P[ART AND GYPSY RONDO TRIO- BRAHMS WALTZ IN A FLAT AND QUARTER OP. 33, AND D MInOR TWO PAINO ARRANGEMENTS OF first PIANO CONCERTO, Verdi - GrAND MARCH AND THIRD ACT OF AIDA, EXCERPTS FROM RIGOLETTO AND LA TRAVIATA,CHOPIN POLONIAISES, PRELUDES, WALTZES, ETUDES, FIRST CONCERTO.