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Only rarely does a new work of major pretensions receive a better performance than it deserves. But Friday evening, in their joint Christmas concert, the Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Harvard - Radcliffe Orchestra, with nine soloists, gave the North American premiere of a work that did not merit the talent and effort they expended on it. As the evening passed, Frank Martin's La Mystere de la Nativite, though occasionally--rarely--illuminated by flashes of beauty, unrolled as a tedious exercise in stylistic combinations and permutations...
...first American presentation of Frank Martin's "Le Mystere de la Nativite" will be performed in Sanders Theatre next Friday and Saturday Dec. 14 and 15 by the Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Orchestra. Henry Swoboda, director of the Orchestra, will conduct...
Certainly a football concert ought not to strive for the heights and depths, but it needn't be spread thin with kitsch, either. Perhaps both choruses should help out at the pep rally and give up for one evening their burden of reviving serious choral music. They're doing only a halfway...
...rally program will include selected words of wisdom from coach John Yovicsin an appearance by the team, the inspiring music of Harvard's irrepressible band, choral arrangements from a local singing group, and the exhilarating sounds of a rock 'n' roll band...
Scrunch, Twang. Already the shopping center has begun to replace the courthouse square as the center of the community's cultural and recreational life. In many a new suburban center, auto-borne families are taking advantage of a busy schedule of attractions-pop concerts on the mall, choral recitals and amateur plays in a center-provided auditorium. The rattle of bowling pins is accompanied by the scrunch of ice skates, the twang of archers' bows. There are fashion shows, cooking schools, art shows, and folk-dancing classes. Now the movie theater operators, who have been shuttering one downtown...