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...time luxuriated in stout goodwill. While most comfortable in small forms, Holst also created large works such as the Hymn to Jesus, the opera Savitri, the cinematic Planets, and the sombre tone poem Egdon Heath. The Ensemble was less successful with this work, but the excellence of the brass choir, which played with solar brightness, was the best I have heard all year...
...Festival, which will be co-sponsored by Afro and Winthrop House in March, will feature only black artists. James Baldwin, Leroi Jones, Dizzie Gillespie, the Abysynnian Baptist Choir of Newark, N.J., and a street theatre group from New York have been invited, but none of them has accepted...
...Quaker home. Each morning at breakfast, he and his four brothers took turns reading Scripture aloud to the family. As a youth, he played the organ and taught Sunday school at the Friends' meeting house in East Whittier, Calif. On Wednesday nights there were prayer meetings, on Thursday choir practice. "Our little community church was the center of our lives," Nixon has recalled. For a time, his mother Hannah hoped that Dick might enter the Friends' ministry...
...could well be the last great Mass ever written. The Society's performance possessed a certain Antarctic charm completely devoid of devotional feeling, but was plunged into obliquy by mispronunciation in the Kyrie (Keer-eiyeh) and the sinusoidal vibrato of the soprano and alto soloists in the Gloria. The choir plodded through the long Credo with sacerdotal vindictiveness but decided to clear up its wooly tone for the exquisite Sanctus. It was on the whole a bloodless performance of an intensely religious work...
STILL SEEKING that ineffable moment. I attended the risorgimiento of the Harvard Glee Club in the annual Harvard-Yale concert. The Yale group began with a thin version of Palestrina's Supplicationes for main chorus and responsive small choir (which joined me in the Tibetan heights of the upper balcony) and proceeded to good performances of Holst's delightful Blacksmith Song and Dowland's beautiful Come Again, Sweet Love. Their part closed with a stupendously tedious arrangement by Fenno Heath of Donne's Death Be Not Proud. The Harvard Glee Club performed a less interesting program except for a mildly...