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SINGING before a packed house at Sanders Theater Friday evening, the massed forces of the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society, under the direction of Elliot Forbes, unleashed a mighty force de frappe in a program calculated to drive the audience into an unholy frenzy. The first half featured delicate works by Elizabethans William Byrd and Thomas Tallis and neo-Elizabethan Benjamin Britten. But after intermission the choir was joined by the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra in a performance of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, a bacchanale celebrating the headiest side of springtime...
...chorus used its spread across the wide Sanders' stage to outline the spicy counterpoint of the two pieces by Britten with an exaggerated stereophonic effect. In the Choral Dances the sopranos (for the first of many times during the evening) failed to negotiate wide leaping sections in a high register. The result was a forced tone and faulty intonation. All four sections of the choir had this difficulty whenever the untrained voices moved out of comfortable singing ranges or attempted passages of uncommon technical difficulty...
...Choral Society; University Choir; H-R Gilbert and Sullivan; PBH; Chairman of Freshman Class Committee; Chairman of Committee on the Freshman Year; Co-chairman, Combined Charities Drive; Harvard-Toronto Exchange
Freshman Chorus; Choral Society; Comstock Social Chairman; RGA Representative; North House Social Chairman; North House RGA Representative; North House Special Events Chairman; PBH; Senior Sister, HSA Let's Go; HSA Information Gathering Service...
Cantori da Chiesa; Freshman Chorus; Choral Society; Asian Tour; PBH Prisons Committee; East House Representative to Senior Class Committee...