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WATCHING an amateur performance of the St. Matthew Passion is like watching an octogenarian make love; the wonder is not so much how well it's done, as the fact that it gets done at all. The Harvard Glee Club-Radcliffe Choral Society production of the Passion last Saturday night, then, was doubly a wonder, since it was both done and done well...
...child "limbers" his body and expresses free associations of feelings and impulses in solitary play with toys and in movement to music. Pantomime, substituting the stimulation of an idea for music or a toy, is the first mode in which a student attempts to converse with another. After choral pantomime Moffett proposes organizing students in small groups, six or less in each, to enact short scenes from stories for their own group and eventually for the whole class. Verbal dramatic activity naturally evolves as students add words to their pantomime. Finally students improvise stories rather than enact those they already...
Died. Paul Boepple, 74, one of the nation's leading choral directors; of pneumonia; in Brattleboro, Vt. As director of the Dessoff Choirs from 1936 until his retirement in 1968, the Swiss-born Boepple was instrumental in expanding American amateur choral singing beyond the traditional repertory, introducing the works of Contemporary Composers Frank Martin and Arthur Honegger, and reviving such once-neglected oratorios as Handel's Israel in Egypt...
...clubs. It was my understanding at the time that the Yale Glee Club and the Yale Women's Chorus were two separate organizations with different conductors. On May 19, Mr. Heath wrote that this proposal was acceptable to him. Then in September he telephoned me to say that the choral situation at Yale had changed: the central group was now a mixed group with the Glee Club and the Women's Chorus as appendages. He informed me that Yale would therefore come as a mixed group or not at all. The executive committee of the Harvard Glee Club felt strongly...
...etiquette that the dissatisfaction within the Yale group concerning these arrangements was voiced neither to me nor to my management in the weeks preceding the concert. Second, the most inflammatory quotation appearing in your article, our manager's statement: "We would rather sing alone than sing with the Radcliffe Choral Society," must not be taken out of context. It is to be applied to the football concert only and is nothing more than a translation of the idea that the Harvard Glee Club should appear at least once during the year as the Harvard Glee Club within the Harvard community...