Word: choiring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radcliffe Freshman Chorus, the Harvard Freshman Glee Club, and the Bach Society Orchestra performed Gabrieli and Bach Sunday afternoon in Sanders Theater. A brass choir under the direction of Michael Senturia played the "Sonata Piane Forte," from Sacrae Symphoniae (1597), by Giovanni Gabrieli, and then chorus and orchestra joined in performing Bach's Magnificat in D, conducted by Allen Miller. The Gabrieli went well, with very few of those bloopers which are the bane of brass playing. The contrasts, "pian e forte," intended by the composer could have been brought out more effectively...
...knew that Soler had spent most of his life at the Escorial's monastery near Madrid, composing, conducting the choir and giving lessons to members of the Spanish royal family. But Escorial officials gave him no help. Marvin moved on to the Escolanía at Montserrat, where...
...well as musicianship, was presented with the fervor it requires. Soloists Margaret Lapsley, Marcia Heintzelman, Franklin van Halsema, and Thomas Beveridge were impressive in both vocal quality and understanding interpretation. A brilliant accompaniment was supplied by pianists Jonathan Thackeray and Bernard Kreger. In equally excellent accompaniment by a brass choir from the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra highlighted the performance of Jubilate Deo, a robust sacred work by the 16th Century Venetian master Giovanni Gabrieli. The choice of this concluding work was a happy one, balancing the opening Palestrina work of the same period but of completely different style. For the student...
...Sunday night Leverett House commemorated its 25th Anniversary with a beguiling program of widely assorted music. The first half of the concert was played by the Harvard Brass Choir, which made a noble attempt at the Contrapunctus One from Bach's Art of the Fugue, and delighted the audience with some Brass music of Johann Pezel, a 17th Century German Town Musician. The Leverett House Glee Club then joined the Brass for a Lied and Chorale by Mendelssohn. The Lied turned out to have the tune of "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" set to a German text praising Gutenberg...
Also participating in the concert will be the Harvard Brass Choir, conducted by Thomas B. Cox '57, and the Leverett House Glee Club...