Word: choiring
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...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher, by Arthur Honegger and Paul Claudel; with Vera Zorina, Jarmila Novotna, Nadine Conner, and the Westminster Choir...
...famed boys' choir of the Dresden Kreuzkirche in the Russian zone was scheduled to sing songs of all nations. Although all four occupying powers had approved the choir's appearance, a German employee of the American Information Control Division, on his own authority, notified the Russians that the choir would have to be banned. The choir's conductor, he said, had not yet been de-Nazified...
...soon as the indiscretion was discovered, the head of the American Control Division called the Russians and told them that the German employee had no such authority. But it was too late. The hypersensitive Russians had already withdrawn the choir and their participation. The party...
...Campus and Battle Hymn of the Republic for Waring in New York. On the side, he trained a glee club for Broadway's Billy Rose, set the swimmers' strokes to music at Billy's World's Fair Aquacade. He also took on the choir at Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church, and organized what is now the Collegiate Chorale...
Flunk in Theory. To his singers, he is a tough taskmaster who insists on clarity of line instead of overwhelming masses of sound. Says he: "It is the performer's business to get out of the way of the music." He picks his "varsity" choir first for knowledge of musical theory, then for ability to sight-read and lastly for voice. When most of his best singers flunked the theory test, he got his own teacher, Juilliard's Julius Herford, to teach them in one-night-a-week classes...