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...choral and instrumental music by New England composers. Lorna Cooke deVaron led her carefully trained New England Conservatory Chorus in pieces dating from 1612 to the present. The unpredictable Charles Ives was represented by his strangely polytonal "Sixty - seventh Psalm;" Randall Thompson '20, Rosen Profesor of Music, by "Alleluia," his best piece; Irving Fine '37, by "Have You Seen the White Lily Grow?"; Carl McKinley '17, by a portion of his dramatic legend The Kid, which incorporated American cowboy song material and is scored for piano and percussion; and Mabel Daniels by her rousing "Psalm of Praise" with piano, three...
Another of Professor Thompson's works, the Familiar Alleluia, was performed following the award of a Harvard Glee Club medal to the composer. In his presentation Professor Wodworth spoke high praise of his colleague's contribution to the choral repertory, a tribute seconded by the warm appreciation of the audience...
...three shades of blue, covering western denims and cowboy boots beneath. Onstage, they froze their eyes on their austere boss and began singing. They piped sweetly, if a little uncertainly, through such concert showpieces as Stradella's Pieta Signore, Bach's Suscepit Israel and Mozart's Alleluia. Then they shed their robes. For the rest of the program, the boys sang one song each of Debussy and Handel, a group of folk songs and westerns punctuated with coyote calls and calf bawls, wound up an hour later in a high-gear, breathless arrangement of Tchaikovsky...
...Peaceable Kingdom," which followed the very effective "Alleluia," presents interesting contrasts between the men's and women's voices. It has none of the precise word-coloring technique of the Handel work but creates an impressionistic mood ranging from a style resembling Renaissance Church music to modern syncopation. Its close, a complicated fugue which is resolved into a unison crescendo, was somewhat disappointing. The earlier black and white differentiation between the righteous and the wicked was lost in the final phrase, "the mountain of the Lord...
Thompson's "Alleluia" and Peaceable Kingdom" will feature the Sanders Theater offerings on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 23 and 24. Tickets for these concerts go on sale at the end of this week...