Word: choraler
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...organizer of the jazz band in high school, huh? Join the club--everyone else was, too. During Freshman Week you will have a chance to show your stuff in endless auditions held by the marching, concert and jazz bands, the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, the Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society, Collegium Musicum, and the Bach Society...
Harvard Glee Club: grumbling emerges from Holden Chapel. Jameson Marvin, the new choral director, walked into a hostile situation and met limited success last year. The all-male chorus sings a varied but small repertoire. Its highlight traditionally is a tenor's rendition of "Loch Lomond...
...times to the "tonal nostalgia" that Robert Craft pointed out in Alban Berg's music, at other times borrowing the jazzy strains of theater music. At Aspen, his pounding rhythms generated a powerful momentum and his thickly massed sonoraties built to sharp climaxes, especially in the big choral scenes. His solo vocal passages and more lyrical moments, however, seemed to lack a distinctive melodic contour...
Still, it was the ardent, intelligent music making of Musica Sacra that provided the festival's best moments. They came in the final choral sections of the Magnificat; in the orchestral Suite No. 3 and the Cantata No. 4 ("Christ lag in Todes-banden") under Westenburg; and above all, in resplendent, moving performances of the Mass in B-Minor that Westenburg conducted on opening and closing nights...
Besides serving as head of the choral department at Juilliard, Westenburg is now music director at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (where most of his Musica Sacra singers also perform) and conductor of the Collegiate Chorale, a 160-voice amateur chorus. And he is planning another Basically Bach festival for next year. All of this has forced him to forgo his weekly summer baseball games and subside to the status of a merely passionate fan. His team? "The Yankees-I guess because they're winners." Coming from a man with Westenburg's recent record, that figures...