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...particular seemed the very bird described by her lines, "Sweet bird,.../ Most musical, most melancholy,/ Thee, chantress of the woods among,/ I woo to hear thy even song." Saffer's song floated through incredible trills and arpeggios which spanned several octaves without the slightest hint of effort. The choir, though little utilized in Handel's score, contributed a flawless, rich background for the soloists in music which also reminded one strongly of certain choruses of Messiah...
Harvard University Choir & Morning Choir; Hasty Pudding Theatricals Band; Sunday Jazz Band; Undergraduate Council; Undergraduate Teachers Education Program...
Leverett House Arts Society; Harvard University Choir & Morning Choir; H-R Society for Creative Anachronism; H-R Forensics Association; PBHA Reading for the Blind...
...bronze chimes entombed in China's Hubei province in 433 B.C. and dug up by amazed archaeologists 2,400 years later. Then the Hong Kong Philharmonic steals in with a simple yet radiant tune in D major--the key of Beethoven's Ode to Joy--and a children's choir begins to sing, accompanied by the soft throb of Chinese drums pounding out an African-flavored beat...
...Symphony 1997 take off so quickly? One reason is that it is both frankly romantic and immediately accessible--Beethoven's Ninth boldly recast for postmoderns, right down to the climactic anthem in which the children's choir sings ecstatically of the prospect of world peace. The work's user-friendly tone, Tan says, is no accident: "If you ask young people of today to listen to a 20-minute-long symphonic movement, nobody really has the patience to listen--not even me! This is why the symphony is in 13 short movements. It's like paragraphs: each section...