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Sanders Theatre rang with the sounds of fine singing yesterday evening. The occasion was the annual concert of the Summer School Chorus. For the third successive year the Chorus was trained by Harold C. Schmidt '32, professor of Music and choral director at Stanford University; and for the third successive year the results were remarkable...
Schmidt deserves tremendous credit for his ability to take an anonymous group of 80 amateurs and mould them in only six weeks into a single responsive musical body that can hold its own in a community accustomed to the very best in choral singing...
...opening "Hail, bright Cecilia," by Purcell, had the proper majesty, though there was a bit of trouble with a few of the tricky entrances. Brahms' brooding and richly colored Song of the Fates fared well, and again showed that Brahms has no superior in the handling of the choral medium...
Fifty singers from the Summer School will present a concert on WGBH-TV, Channel 2, tonight at 9. The program, under the direction of Harold C. Schmidt, professor of music at Stanford University, will include Renaissance madrigals and selections from opera and contemporary choral music, it was announced. Dorothy Crawford is scheduled to be soprano soloist, while Rafael Ferrer and Anne Chamberlain will accompany the chorus...
June 16 witnessed a concert of choral and instrumental music by New England composers. Lorna Cooke deVaron led her carefully trained New England Conservatory Chorus in pieces dating from 1612 to the present. The unpredictable Charles Ives was represented by his strangely polytonal "Sixty - seventh Psalm;" Randall Thompson '20, Rosen Profesor of Music, by "Alleluia," his best piece; Irving Fine '37, by "Have You Seen the White Lily Grow?"; Carl McKinley '17, by a portion of his dramatic legend The Kid, which incorporated American cowboy song material and is scored for piano and percussion; and Mabel Daniels by her rousing...