Word: choraled
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...Walter Bigelow Rosen Chair of Music, established this spring, has been awarded to Thompson. Among the works of the well-knonwn contemporary composer are two symphonies, a choral work, "Testament of Freedom," based on the writings of Thomas Jefferson, suites for chamber ensembles, and other orchestral compositions...
...long illness; in Chicago. Carpenter began winning acclaim around World War I for his polite, elegant songs, impressionistic orchestra pieces (Adventures in a Perambulator). Later he experimented widely, became the rage of the '20s with his jazz themes (the ballets Krazy Kat, Skyscrapers), was also noted for his choral works, chamber music and symphonies. Carpenter once said of his music: "At any rate, it is peaceful music, and in these days perhaps that is something...
Good music, well-rehearsed musicians, and Mr. William Perry combined to make the Adams House Musical Society's closing concert a triumphant one. Presenting English and French works of the Eighteenth Century, the Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society, and instrumentalists from the greater Boston area accomplished the difficult feat of pleasing an audience with music most of them had never heard before...
...orchestras for the concerts were drawn from the University at large, because members of the Society felt that the challenge presented by concerts of unfamiliar music would be too much for a group limited to one House. Healthy fractions of the Glee Club, the Pierian Sodality, and the Radcliffe Choral Society have been used in most of the large concerts. For "The Gypsy Baron," the Society imported Polyna Stoska from the Met. "The Gypsy Baron" was the organization's most ambitious production, and its most serious setback...
Charles Munch is probably the outstanding living interpreter of Berlioz. His reading of the Requiem was incandescent. But great credit must also go to the Glee Club and Choral Society. It seems remarkable that in so short a time they could become so respensive to Mr. Munch's direction. And even in the last performance, their tone quality remained pure and clear. The excellence of their training was particularly well shown in the a capella prayer "Quaerens...