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...University Choir sang the first two cantatas of the six that make up the Christmas Oratorio. The performance was a great testimony to the ability of the Choir. Throughout the school year, music at Memorial Church is relegated--rightfully--to a supportive role. The carol programs grant the Choir a chance to perform as a solo ensemble without leaving contest...
Unlike the protest of last spring, the university police were conspicuously absent when the group of protesters at 9 a.m. yesterday. Robert Himmal, B.U. chaplain was the only representative from the university there. He greeted the students and passed out choir rehearsal schedule for the week...
...Even though Cornell has admitted women students since 1872, its 80-member Glee Club has not. Women were welcome to sing in the Sage Chapel Choir or the Cornell Chorus, but the Glee Club remained dedicated to "the study, practice, performance and promotion of music for male voices." Now, however, the Glee Club has decided to end discrimination solely on the basis of sex. Starting next semester, women are welcome to audition along with the men. There is only one condition: since the club remains dedicated to music written for male voices, only women who can sing in the tenor...
...earnestness, they shunned such traditional campus hijinks as Yale's Whiffenpoofs, Princeton's Triangle Show and Stanford's Gaieties in favor of black self-help or cultural projects. Black students at Columbia tutor schoolchildren in Harlem, for example, while those at Northwestern have formed a black choir, folk theater and dance troupe. At Cornell this fall, they opened Ujamaa, an all-black residential center devoted to the study of Tanzania President Julius Nyerere's philosophy of "familyhood...
...Oberon, a bit of mindless romanticism that was just good fun. Compared to Oberon, Ravel's Sheherazade was romanticism run amok. The Weber was a perfect companion piece to the concert's opener, Shivaree by this year's occupant of the Norton Poetry Chair, Leonard Bernstein. Sporting a brass choir that practically made the Sanders Theater stage sag with the weight, the massed percussion and brass charged through a work that begs to be labeled distilled West Side Story. Bernstein's music is accessible without sacrificing musical integrity, a combination that eludes most contemporary composers, nearly all of whom...