Word: choraler
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...musical world resembles a huge unwieldy Ptolemaic universe--full of irregular and continuing spheres and orbits. The sphere closest to the center is the one containing the musical Leviathans: The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, the Harvard University Band and the Harvard Glee Club (with its somewhat dependent satellite the Radcliffe Choral Society). These are the big prestigious organizations; they involve the most people and are the first to attract the attention of neophyte musicians. They are the only musical organizations enjoying anything like official status. Like all extracurricular activity here, they receive no operating support from the University, but their conductors...
...unlike an unveiling, what was revealed was not a finished product but a point of departure, deserving not so much praise for its perfections as good wishes for its future attainments. Last night's concert showed, in short, that the Asian Tour group of the Glee Club and Choral Society, for all its spirits and precision, has important deficiencies to overcome...
...King Jesus" created a lilting pulse that was still with me long after the concert. And in Britten's "A Hymn to the Virgin" the main chorus and a tiny answering chorus competed (with the small chorus just barely winning) for the honor of making the most refined choral sound of the evening...
...Choral & Song...
STOCKHAUSEN: MOMENTE (Nonesuch). Karlheinz Stockhausen, the loudest noise in German electronic music, temporarily puts aside his tape recorder for something a bit-but just a bit-less far out. This time he turns on Soprano Martina Arroyo, backed by 13 instrumentalists and four choral groups equipped with sticks and boxes. The resulting hour-long piece is wild stuff all right; at times it sounds like a crowd clapping and hissing at a madwoman who jabbers and trills like a bird. The accompanying explanatory notes, formulas and diagrams are most scholarly...