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...aural mix and a weakness for the overblown style-a weakness this time kept under control. Ringo plays on the album, and so do Nashville's Pete Drake and England's Eric Clapton. Identified in the credits as the George O'Hara-Smith Singers is a choir of Beat-le-sounding experts. That is Harrison's little joke. All the voices are George's, carefully overdubbed one at a time. Bob Dylan's influence can be felt everywhere. Their joint effort, I'd Have You Anytime (music by Harrison, words by Dylan...
...cathedral, the dark clothes of the mourners contrasted with the brilliant red trimmings on the uniforms of the Garde Républicaine. A soft light from the huge circles of the rose windows was obscured by scores of arc lights for color-TV coverage. In the apse behind the choir hung an enormous ceiling-to-floor tricolor. When Pompidou and his wife entered, the white-robed cathedral choir began a chorale from Bach's St. Matthew Passion. Within an hour, the service ended with a Magnificat. The same anthem had closed the Notre Dame service in which De Gaulle...
John Ferris conducted the other two parts of the program, and did a spectacular job. He has a unique way of preparing a choir, and it was obvious that the University choir felt at home with him. His directing was clear and precise, easily comprehensible but not simplistic. The Symphony of Psalms was beautifully done, the choir well prepared. This symphony is unusually difficult for the woodwinds, but the flutes and oboes responded very well...
...Schutz Lobe den Herren is a marvelous piece, done by the chorus and continuo. The University Choir did a thorough job on it, obviously responding well to Ferris's direction...
Despite all that, the HRO and the University Choir have taken on a daring program and succeeded. It is refreshing that enough people are still dedicated to music to make up an orchestra, even though the Faculty seems determined to treat performing as the bastard child of the Music Department. While the Faculty Council keeps debating the issue of granting academic credit to the HRO, more and more players find that they cannot afford the time to perform with the Orchestra. If music dies at Harvard, it may be because the Faculty really didn't want it in the first...