Word: choraled
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Betty Ann Ellera '54 Moors; Sub Troas., Student Government Association; "Drumbeats and song"; Treas., Freshman Class; Community Service; Choral; Work Chairman, 55 Garden...
Freshmen not making the Glee Club may have a choral group of their own next year, it was learned yesterday. A special Glee Club committee is now considering plans for such a group to prepare some first-year students for later membership in the varsity singing society...
This combination cantata, symphony, and opera splits into three long movements. There are a few dull passages, but most of its 120 minutes brim over with intense emotion. After an orchestral introduction, a choral recitative marks out the plot, and the first movement ends with what seems to be a rather static version of the famous balcony scene. The second movement has the familiar "Queen Maud Scherzo" and the final section describes the death of the lovers, and the reconciliation of the warring houses...
...chorus varied in function and effectiveness. Sometimes commenting on the action, sometimes becoming a part of the action, it resembled the chorus of a Greek tragedy. Berlioz was no genius at writing choral music. His counterpoint is at times turgid, his sonorities monotonous. Nevertheless, there are passages in the final scene where the words and music combine in mutual enhancement, and even steal the show from the orchestra. The Harvard and Radcliffe choral groups, trained by G. Walace Woodworth, were no better than usual, but they really couldn't be. That they were able to successfully project the rather unrewarding...
...time. Contralto Margaret Roggero, whose rich, pure voice compensated for her poor diction, had one lovely aria in the first act. Yi-Kwei Sze, as Friar Laurence, showed fine tonal control, even in the lowest registers. The sudden emergence of his booming bass voice in the midst of a choral and orchestral tutti was one of the finest moments in the work...