Word: choraled
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Fitting more than 160 singers onto a Harvard stage is no easy feat. And neither is organizing and performing Beethoven’s monumental choral work, the ‘Missa Solemnis...
...after almost an entire year of preparation, the Radcliffe Choral Society (RCS), the Harvard Glee Club, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum (HRCM) will do both as they perform Beethoven’s masterpiece today in Sanders Theater...
...years Marvin has been the director of choral activities at Harvard; in that time he has also directed the Glee Club and the HRCM. He began directing the RCS in 1996, and he also teaches numerous classes in the Music department on choral conducting...
...Allegiance. That's why a new hearing-aid-like device called the SpeechEasy seems to help. Invented by researchers at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C., it's a tiny, programmable earpiece that alters the pitch of the speaker's voice and echoes it back into the ear. This "choral effect" tricks the brain into thinking someone else is talking and encourages fluent speech. In initial tests, the SpeechEasy worked for about 85% of stutterers. The effect is nearly instantaneous; but like glasses for the nearsighted, it lasts only as long as the device is being used. --By Sora Song
...Rorem called "infectiously beautiful" melody; of an apparent heart attack, while traveling to a festival of his music; in Lafayette, Ind. Celebrated for promoting the gamelan--an Indonesian percussion orchestra--in the U.S., Harrison relied on everything from Korean court music to medieval dance melodies in composing symphonies, operas, choral pieces and instrumental suites...