Word: choraler
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...first piece with precision. It seemed unlikely for the quality of Mem Church music to rise still higher after last year's triumphant Schuetz festival; but last Sunday's premiere was commendable for its technique and still more so for its presentation of contemporary choral material, a musical genre so often maligned or ignored...
Harvard University Choir. Memorial Church, Harvard Yard. Fri., Mar. 24, 8:30 p.m. Choral works of Schutz. Sun., Mar. 26, 8:30 p.m. Old West Church, Cambridge St., Boston. Polychoral works of Schutz. Free...
...program. The Fantasia Chromatica was the standout with its nearbaroque intensity and artifice finishing with an explosion of virtuoso figures. All five pieces were played with intelligence and imaginative registrations. Once again John Adams has provided an outstanding program, bringing together two of the area's very finest choral groups in a sensitive, thoughtful presentation. He did as much with sacred music as is possible in a distinctly secular...
...Collegium was formed in response to increasing inequities in the choral situation at Harvard. There was a clear need for an excellent standing mixed group, oriented primarily toward undergraduate musicians, which would represent Harvard on tours outside of Cambridge. This function was not fulfilled by either of the other two mixed groups or by the Harvard Glee Club (HGC) and Radcliffe Choral Society (RCS) performing together. Of the extant groups, the University Choir is tied to Memorial Church and does not tour, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus, which admits anyone who wants the opportunity to sing, is intended primarily...
...Handel's rarely performed Ariodante. Though he hopes to invite La Scala, the Vienna Staatsoper and Britain's Royal Opera to Washington, he wants "nothing to do with a glorified booking house." Included in his future plans for the center are a series of programs of choral masterpieces that will employ the resources of the city's excellent choirs, and an election-year revival of George Gershwin's musical spoof of the presidency, Of Thee I Sing...