Word: choir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pleased this morning to read your commentary on the situation created by the banning of women's voices from the Memorial Church Choir...
Under the combined efforts of Professor Wood-worth and Professor Davison the mixed choir has attained a degree of perfection for which a men's chorus in vain would strive. These two men have done their utmost to keep the choir together, but now their work is thwarted by the bias of a couple of University officials...
Grace Moore was goggleworthy herself in a photo that reached the U.S. from Rome last week (see cut). Occasion for the bubbly blonde soprano's somber wrap-up : an audience with Pope Pius XII. The onetime Baptist choir singer from Jellico, Tenn. had conversion on her mind...
...least one segment of the University has frankly admitted that co-education, no matter how it is talked about, does not and should not belong here. Memorial Church divines have decreed that the Choir, whose all-male history survived as long as Radcliffe was kept on the other side of Garden Street, shall return to its pre-war status by next fall. Two possible reasons for the decision offer themselves. First, a chorus of men's voices is more musically suitable to religious services. Second, a University which proclaims itself a male institution could not both sponsor a mixed choir...
Although some prestige might attach itself to the uniqueness of a choir which ranges in the lower octaves, little of the praise will be reserved for the programming. Composers of church music have never been forced to leave sopranos out of their chorales in order that their genius might be reserved for masculine choirs in a men's college. The mixed group of 35 which has sung for Memorial Church services for three years has been able to bring with it a selection of religious music hitherto unheard in the Yard...