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...Purgatory" is the second Yeats play, and it is done equally well. This is a return to words alone, an exercise in concentrating enormous action into a handful of lines. The meter is irregular, there is no choral interlude, only the talk of a peddlar and his son standing before a gutted house. The talk shimmers with movement and tension: we watch the house become alive with terrible memories. The peddlar has killed his own father in this very house, and a family cannot purge itself of a crime its blood passes on. Each generation reenacts a family sin until...
...reason why the Harvard Glee Club maintains its quality appeared last night: the Harvard Freshman Glee Club, directed by Truman Bullard. In its concert with the Radcliffe Freshman Choral Society, it displayed the same energy, control, and rich tone that made its Christmas recital so impressive. The 'Cliffies added definite visual, and some aural, esthetic satisfaction...
...Romney and Bass Chi-Yuen Wang successfully staved off the strings, but were drowned by the chorus's volume. Except at a few points, it seemed that the chorus had been through the whole thing before and was tiredly stampeding home: Frederic H. Ford, conductor at the Radcliffe Freshman Choral Society, whipped it through the Sanctus at a gallop...
...agility of the Glee Club's voices. After a 'Suabian Folk Song' by Brahms, an arrangement by Vaughan Williams, and an unwitting parody on schmaltz by Paul Creston, richness palled: what the Glee Club needed was more good, lean music like the Bartok 'Three Folk Songs.' To these the Choral Society gave its strongest and most straightforward performance of the evening...
Monastic life varies from hard to hardest, and fewer than half of all novices last out the five-to seven-year training period before final vows are taken. As a rule, Benedictines rise at dawn to recite Matins and Lauds before Mass, spend four hours or more daily in choral prayer, observe silence after the last service of the day, Compline. Stricter congregations, such as the Trappists and the Camaldolese, rise for prayer around 2 in the morning, keep perpetual silence, abstain from meat entirely...