Word: choir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Annual Christmas services, conducted by Dean Willard L. Sperry, with a musical program by the University Choir and the Choral Society of Radcliffe, under the direction of Archibald T. Davison, professor of Choral Music, will be held in the Memorial Church, this evening at 8:15 o'clock...
Annual Christmas services, conducted by Dean Willard L. Sperry, with a musical program by the University Choir and the Choral Society of Radcliffe, under the direction of Archibald T. Davison, professor of Choral Music, will be held in the Memorial Church on Monday evening. December 18, and on Tuesday afternoon and evening, December...
...harpsichord, which looks like an incubator-baby-grand piano and sounds like a choir of mandolins, was once the most important of concert instruments. Before it was ousted (at the beginning of the 19th Century) by the louder and more flexible modern piano, composers like Bach and Handel wrote sheaves of compositions for it. Even Beethoven turned out a batch of sonatas for the harpsichord. Today, harpsichord playing occupies the position that falconry does in the field of sports. And most early harpsichord music is now played on modern instruments like the piano. But today's handful of harpsichordists...
...close the ten-day high holidays of the new Jewish year. To Congregation B'nai Sholaum in Brooklyn, N. Y., the first day's sun of year 5700* brought something new-a woman in the pulpit. Helen Hadassah Levinthal, comely in academic gown and four-pointed choir-singer's cap, preached at the three big holiday services, as near to being a rabbi as a female might be. Last summer, at Manhattan's Jewish Institute of Religion, she was the first woman anywhere to pass a course of studies for the rabbinate...
...music by Handel, none of it performed since the composer's day. Enjoyed most by delegates and outsiders alike was a concert of medieval music at The Cloisters, Manhattan's museum-piece museum of Gothic art, where bull-necked French Tenor Yves Tinayre and a girls' choir sang motets, trouvere songs, Gregorian chants...