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Radcliffe Choral Society, 1969-71. Treasurer, 1970-71; Radcliffe Chorus 1968-9; Comstock Hall President, 1970; North House Committee, 1970; Lowell House Opera-"The Rake's Progress", 1971; Lowell House Committee-Treasurer...
...twelve he wrote the music and libretto of his first opera ?entitled The Doom of the Earth. Soon after, he was laid up for a year with incipient TB, and he used the time to "structure my life." In high school he ran his own drama and choral groups, and at De Paul University he wrote another opera for his master's thesis...
...Harvard Glee Club and its associated groups have been reorganized for a one-year trial period. The Radcliffe Choral Society has been dissolved: in its place is the new Collegium Musicum, a select mixed ensemble of seventy singers. The Glee Club will no longer perform with a Radcliffe organization though it will continue cooperating with outside groups. The creation of a mixed chorus of uncommon quality will ease the tensions that came from having two single-sex systems. All the details have been carefully attended to: rehearsals are the same evening for both groups allowing men to participate in mixed...
Schonberg further observed that "when one wolf starts howling, like Franco Corelli in Verdi's 'Di quella pira' from 11 Trovatore, the rest of the wolves join in, as in the choral sections of 'Di quella pira.' " He found that the best wolf virtuosos "start pianissimo, swell to a messa di voce to the sixth above, hold it sweetly and purely, then perhaps embellish to the upper partial before going down to a pianissimo and trailing off on an inconclusive microtonality near the tonic." Although some wolves have a range of more than an octave...
...sophomore called in at the last minute to fill in for the ailing soprano, did a splendid job, handling most of her role as if she knew it by heart. The choruses were in wonderful shape, as was the first orchestra which handled itself remarkably well. For a choral conductor, F. John Adams did a remarkable job in preparing the ensemble...