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...Choral music has been orphaned in this century. Estranged from the church, it no longer has strong institutional backing. Cut off from contemporary experimentation, it wanders among neoclassical revivals, folk song arrangements, and patriotic hymning. The program of the Choral Society and the Glee Club set high standards of taste for the moderns to match when they opened with Thomas Tallis's Lamentations of Jeremiah and Heinrich Schutz's 34th Psalm; three contemporary madrigals and Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex met them generally well, but Roger Sessions's Turn, O Libertad...
SPRING CONCERT: The Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society (conductor: Elliot Forbes '40) will join forces Sanders Theater in concert of music by Schutx, Tallis, Haydx and Schumann, in addition to excerpts from Igor Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex and three contemporary madrigals. 8:30 P.M. Special student tickets $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 at the Coop or at Holden Chapel...
HARVARD GLEE CLUB AND RADCLIFFE CHORAL SOCIETY will swell the ranks of the BSO for the Boston's performance of Gabriel Faure's Requiem. The program also includes Bruckner's To Deum and an Adagio from his string quintet; Charles Munch returns to the podium. Symphony Hall; 2:15 P.M. (Repeat performance SATURDAY...
...They've done this place over neatly," I heard one of Cambridge's older generation remark behind me at the Radcliffe Choral Society concert last night. "Times do change." Paine Hall's interior decor has indeed changed with the times, but the character of the groups that have sung in it has swerved little from the standard of taste and precision established 50 years ago. Tone quality and balance vary from year to year, but the singing groups are always `neat" and last night the Choral Society demonstrated this quality again, while ranging from Pergolesi's Stabat Mater to Kodaly...
...virtue because of this change. While its melodies and accompaniment flow with ease and winning sweetness, its mourning draws back from florid tone-painting to achieve a simpler expression of grief. The introduction of the chorus was, indeed, not an intrusion, for Emily C. Romney, Assistant Conductor of the Choral Society, directed the group with simplicity and made the delightful melodies really sing...