Word: choir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Salt Lake City Choir (Sun. 11:30 a.m., CBS). Excerpts from Handel's Messiah...
First of the two sets is the Mozart Requiem Mass, a work which despite its important position in the composer's creations and among all the works in the Mass form has been available heretofore only in an inferior and abridged Victor version by the Pennsylvania Bach Choir. In this Cetra recording of the Requiem a superb orchestra and tremendous chorus combines with such soloists as Ferrucio Tagliavini, thrilling young tenor who will soon appear with the Met, to produce an effect altogether superior to that of the American set. Particularly outstanding is the recording technique: the more than...
Since the Christ Church choir is composed of the Polyphonte Choir and the Harvard-Radeliffe Student Choir, other Cambridge students will be taking part in the holiday presentation. Altred N. Patterson, from Christ Church, will conduct...
Stephens girls generally learn quite a bit about horses, planes, and the Bible. They attend the world's largest collegiate Bible class (with choir and orchestra). The college has a $75,000 riding arena, with 45 horses, and an aviation program with 30 planes. A faculty committee on "education by travel" is now planning a revival of the well-publicized continental grand tours Stephens girls took before...
...accelerations and retardations are easily forgiven in light of his exciting treatment of this familiar work. As in all his performances of Brahms Koussevitzky strives for a cumulative emotional effect through the music and ignores the niceties of the traditional Classic approach. Although liberties are taken with tempi and choir prominence, Koussevitzky's Brahms is a good answer to those who insist that the German master is academic and intellectual. Brahms was warm-blooded and extrovert Sunday afternoon...