Word: choraled
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Swing to Bridges. In Washington, hardly anyone thought that Taft would oppose confirmation of Durkin, and no one thought that the Senate would refuse to confirm him.* The Ohio Senator's colleagues in Congress failed to provide any choral background for his solo. Vermont's Senator George D. Aiken, who will rank next to Chairman Taft on the Labor Committee, thought it was "wise to recognize organized labor in the Cabinet." Several Taft-minded Senators, e.g., Kansas' Andrew Schoeppel, swung behind New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, rather than Taft, for Majority Leader...
...Christmas season is officially here. Its usual harbinger, Handel's Messiah, received last night the kind of performance it always deserves. The Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society, and Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, all conducted by G. Wallace Woodworth, played the Christmas section of the oratorio with freshness and reverence...
...generally subdued part of the concert seemed tonally veiled--noticeably different from the exuberance of most productions. Not until the chorus, Glory to God in the Highest was the veil lifted. The trumpets, which had been silent through the first half of the concert, suddenly joined with a choral fortissimo entrance in what was one of the evening's greatest moments...
...Choral, in conjunction with Harvard group, gave a concert in Lexington yesterday. The sang "The Blessed Damozel" and a Bach choral work...
Perhaps the club's greatest achievement came in the 1931 and '32 performances of Each's difficult Mass in B miny of which Boston critic H. R. Partewrote: "It was choral singing unsurpassed at Symphony Hall in this generation in matched in those days in America in for performance of the E-minor mass...