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...kept that promise you made to your tearful waving-goodbye mother during that light-years-ago Freshman Week and you still tender your devotions regularly at Memorial Church on Sundays. If so, you will be familiar with the melodious handiwork of Lenora McCroskey, Assistant Organist and Choir Master there. She (not the cat's mother but McCroskey) will give a harpsichord recital in that be-steepled Greek temple opposite Widener that you might be going to 8:45 morning prayers at. Admission is free and the show sould be well worth listening...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: CLASSICAL | 5/12/1977 | See Source »

Nasty Habits, because it depends only on this one gimmick to carry the script, stimulates less excitement than a choir of singing nuns. Based on such a well-known story, the movie leaves no room for suspense. When the action drags, it makes little difference whether the crooks wear habits or five o'clock shadow. Nothing new emerges about the Watergate fiasco--except that it is difficult to make an entertaining film out of it. Robert Ender's screenplay, an adaptation of Muriel Spark's novel The Abbess of Crewe, manages only to trivialize the scandal, and any profundity about...

Author: By Hilary B. Klein, | Title: A Habit Worth Breaking | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

...played by Hohn Heseltine, has an amazing voice. There is a strange paradox to Britten's characterization of the role--the King of the Fairies has to have a high voice that contrasts with the voices of the humans. Heseltine manages to avoid the pitfall of sounding like a choir-boy. He sounds unearthly and commanding at the same time...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Thickets of Enchantment and Illusion | 4/16/1977 | See Source »

...told by Carter that he was running for the presidency. When Shanklin said he would vote for the Georgian, Carter promised to ask him around for breakfast when he got to the White House. Accompanied by Daughter Amy, Carter also listened appreciatively to the National Children's Choir during the dedication of Children's Hospital in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WHITE HOUSE: Pleasures-and Perils-of Populism | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

...University Choir, under the direction of John Ferris, presents Bruckner's Mass in e as part of Cambridge Concert Series. First Congregational Church at 11 Garden Street, 8 pm. Repeat performance on Saturday...

Author: By Judy Kogan, | Title: Classical Listings | 3/17/1977 | See Source »

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