Word: choraler
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...disdain for mere mechanics carries over into his expectations for groups that work under him, including amateur groups like the Summer School Chorus, which he is conducting this year. Most choral conductors spend a lot of time going over the music slowly until each section has learned its notes. Only then do they begin to work on musical values. But Chen takes the music up to tempo from the very first. "If I let everyone carefully study their notes, when I want to go fast, they won't be able to go fast any more." He fears that his singers...
...Quadradisc, one hears each of the first four notes of the opening "Promenade" from a different loudspeaker. Disconcerting, that. So, at first, is the fact that the sound is not Mussorgsky's piano or Ravel's trumpet, but one of human voices-or rather, canned choral sounds transmogrified by Tomita's Mellotron, an electronic keyboard device that plays prerecorded tapes. Things perk up considerably with the first picture, "The Gnome," a succession of subterranean squeaks and giggles that resemble a band of tipsy trolls frolicking beneath Frankenstein's castle. As for "The Old Castle," it sounds...
Educational Resources Group, CUE; Committee on Undergraduate Instruction; Exec. Comm., HRC; House Comm; Editor, Trunkline; PBH legal Committee; Radcliffe Choral Society; Harvard Dramatic Club; Harvard Cheerleader; Junior Day Comm.; MIT-Harvard-Wellesley Flying Club; Longy School of Music; Women's Self-Government Assan...
...open choral sight-reading of Requiems by Mozart and Faure. F. John Adams, conductor, Leverett...
...calls attention to each iamb, Adams tended to emphasize the repetitive Baroque rhythms at the expense of larger phrases. Part of this problem can be traced to the widespread malady of the pick-up orchestra. This was the usual random group of instrumentalists thrown together to accompany a university choral group and as usual, they plagued the performance with ragged entrances, shaky ensemble, and a sight-reader's insensitivity to the meaning of the music...