Word: chiesa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cantori da Chiesa; Freshman Chorus; Choral Society; Asian Tour; PBH Prisons Committee; East House Representative to Senior Class Committee...
Performing the Requiem was a carefully picked group of musicians. Adams recruited the chorus of sixty from the Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society, and the University Choir. The modest orchestra da chiesa contained some of Harvard's most respected undergraduate musicians. Of the four soloists, soprano Carlotta Wilsen conducts the Radcliffe Freshmen Chorus, tenor Henry Gibbons is the music tutor of Lowell House, and bass David Ripley is a freshman. Adams thus refuted the current contention that a major choral-orchestral work cannot be performed at Harvard without importing most of the necessary musicians from the outside...
Undergraduate Advisor 1966-7; Harvard Classical Club, vice-president, 1966-7; North House Committee 1963-7; Holmes Hall Dormitory Committee 1965-6; Byzantine-Russian Liturgical Choir 1965-6; Cantori da Chiesa, 1964-5; freshman chorus; Young Dems, 1964-5; Phi Beta Kappa...
Included on the program were excerpts from Thomson's The Mother of Us All, a two-act opera about Feminist Susan B. Anthony, with text by Gertrude Stein, the Sonata da Chiesa, Etudes for Piano, Lamentations for Accordion. Although Thomson's neatly fashioned, strongly melodic film scores have a misty, impressionist charm and are his best known works, there is a more abrasive and far more somber side to his music. It was clearly demonstrated in the anniversary concert's Sonata da Chiesa, with its opening chorale based on a Kansas City Negro church service. Strangely...