Word: choraled
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...club officers decided there was not enough time during rehearsals to sing "Polly Wolly Doodle All the Day" and determined to convert the Club into a genuinely ambitious choral organization. Davison agreed with the plan to separate from the instrument clubs and the big switch from "the Bullfrog on the Bank" to Bach was made...
...candidate for honors in biochemical sciences, she is vice-president of Radcliffe Choral Society, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa's Junior Six and Pre-Medical Society. She will enter Harvard Medical School next fall...
...active interest in music. Another big influence is the orchestra's Budapest-born conductor, Frederic Balazs, 35, who was engaged two seasons ago. Conductor Balazs has organized an exchange concert with Phoenix, children's concerts and a new civic chorus. He has already staged two large-scale choral works. Liszt's monumental Christus and Haydn's Creation. Best of all, Balazs sees to it that there is a modern American composition, e.g., Ulysses Kay's Horizons, on every program...
...took a calculated risk when it chose to give T. S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral." For although the play contains some of Eliot's most beautiful poetry, it is immensely difficult to perform. With little action and long choral passages that are spoken by as many as fifteen people, there is an ever-present danger that "Murder in the Cathedral" will seem more a series of dialogues on the problems of sainthood than a unified dramatic whole...
...seven women in the chorus do not fall victim to the pitfalls so common in choral speaking: faulty timing and a lack of harmony. Their precision is achieved mainly through the skillful direction of Theodore Field. He seldom allows the seven to speak as a whole, preferring instead to let individual lines go to single persons or small groups. But the chorus always seems to speak at a feverish intensity; greater contrast would lend much to the dramatic effect. The three priests, on the contrary, speak with a careful modulation that shows thorough understanding of their roles...