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...clubs presented a concert of choral music by the Bach Cantata Club assisted by the Harvard Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Nicholas Van Slyck '46. Most recently, the clubs gave a concert of modern chamber and choral music. The chorus, directed by Assistant Professor Irving Fine, one of the faculty advisers of the clubs, sang two of his compositions and one by Gordon Binkerd, a teaching fellow in the Music Department. During the year the clubs also provided a complete performance of Bach's Musical Offering under the direction of David G. Hughes '47 and a lecture on twelve tone music...
...program will consist of contemporary orchestral works by Boston composers. The featured work will be the first performance of Berger's "The Exiles," a cantata written in 1943. Lukas Foss, piano soloist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, will perform his piano concerto...
...Minnicks and Dyers. It has two gas stations, a post office (Ross Gallimore, postmaster) and Fulk Bros. Electric Store. There are four churches-the Nazarene, Methodist, Baptist, and the white, steepled Christian Church to which all of Freedom's people were invited, last week, to hear a Christmas cantata...
...cantata-sung by the Christian choir from Spencer, eight miles away-was Freedom's biggest Christmas celebration. The day it was held, most of the customers at the Regal (which offers such homely items as Clabber Girl Baking Powder and Mail Pouch Tobacco) chatted about it, and some started talking about the way the world looked to them as Christmas drew near...
...audience at Sanders was packed Friday night; the men on the stage wore tails. Despite their respective constrictions, both groups had a good time, for the tradition of Harvard-Yale Concerts was interpreted in liberal fashion. After an Elegy and Bach Cantata, the Harvard Club launched into several choruses from "Patience" and the audience caught on: they were to enjoy themselves, not to appraise. Whereupon the two groups of singers pushed into their concert with a gusto that belied the forbidding impressions created by their formal stance and ceremonial dress...