Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the leadership of Karl G. Kohn '48 and Margaret Sherman '50, the combined clubs have held regular monthly concerts of chamber music. Many of these have included such guest artists as Phyllis Curtin, soprano, and Lukas Foss, pianist. In addition, the Intercollegiate Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Samuel Adler, gave a concert in March at which works by contemporary composers were performed. The Orchestra included many of the most capable performers from colleges in the Boston area...
...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...
This has been a good year for the Music Clubs, and they have furthered the cause of contemporary music. But the sometimes pathetically small audiences, the vanishing of the Music Club Chorus which flourished last year, and the relative inactivity of the Chamber Orchestra are warnings for the future. There is no longer such an active group of veteran musicians around Harvard, and if the clubs are to maintain the high standards which have been set up to now, they will need a more efficient and more perservering management to encourage other groups to cooperate with them in getting good...
...Moorish guards mounted on gold-shod Arabian steeds, Franco rode to the Cortes. No less resplendent than his escorts, whose azure, red & orange capes flowed in the wind, the Caudillo wore the yellow, red & gold dress uniform of a Field Marshal of Spain. Briskly he entered the Cortes chamber through a special door which had been ripped open for him the night before, was bricked up again after the ceremony. Bobbing up & down, Franco acknowledged the cheers of the white-jacketed Procuradores (Cortes members) and the blue-uniformed Falangists. On hand to hear the Caudillo was a fine array...
...star-chamber session!" Quinn exclaimed, adding, "that's not the American way. Dr. Klapper. You must remember Queens College is a public institution, supported by taxpayers' money, and what the faculty does is everybody's business...