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...Mark's Lutheran Church in Chicago, Christmas was marked seven years ago by what the pastor, the Rev. J. Stephen Bremer, calls "two rather nondescript services," on Christmas Eve. Next week the Rev. Mr. Bremer and his congregation will celebrate the birth of Christ with four choral Eucharists, at which all the prayers and responses will be sung in plain chant. Instead of the austere black robe that his predecessor wore, the Rev. Mr. Bremer will dress in full Eucharistic vestments-alb, stole, maniple and chasuble, all in white. St. Mark's altar will bear six candles instead...
...King's College, Cambridge, whose annual Christmas Eve Festival of Lessons and Carols London has also recorded (London 5523). This is the record our Aunt Edna will get, if we can bear to part with it. The simple and elegant service (the lessons are read by a chorister, a choral scholar, three fellows, the dean and the provost) and the truly remarkable carols (such as "Once in Royal David's City," and "Adam lay ybounden") combine to make this record the best of the Christmas offerings...
Last night's joint Christmas Concert of the Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society and Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra was, let me assert immediately and axiomatically, the best concert any of the three groups have given here in the past, say, three years. Or say four years. I don't care...
...unlike Mozart, Stravinsky's setting of three Latin psalms is angular, harsh and massive. The chorus is made to sing heavy, declarative lines, which must, for a performance to succeed, be delineated and articulated with considerable precision. And last night under Mr. Senturia's direction, the Glee Club and Choral Society sang the Psalms impeccably. Their tone, full and fortunately wholesome, was rigidly controlled throughout, attacks were impressively clean, and self assured...
...annual Joint Christmas Concert by the Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra will be presented tomorrow afternoon and evening at Sanders Theatre...