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RADCLIFFE CHORAL SOCIETY, under the direction of Eliot Forbes '40, in a repertoire concert that will include works by Brahms, Schumann, Vaughan Williams, Beveridge and Le Jeune. Paine Hall; 8:30 P.M. Tickets: $1.00; $.50 for undergraduates. At the Coop, Holden Chapel, or at the door...
Which brings my second suggestion: that the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society perform and record with the Boston Symphony Orchestra excerpts from these Easter poems, the two Grail scenes, in Act I and Act III of Parisfal, and the Prologue to Meflstofele, which is quite worthy of its two great companions...
RADCLIFFE CHORAL SOCIETY. under the direction of Elliot Forbes '40 in a concert at Paine Hall. 8:30 P.M. Tickets at the Coop or at the door...
...artistic organization doing an unusual stunt, but as an educational movement." The freak value of the Glee Club naturally did not last long, and by 1926 it was singing to a half-empty Symphony Hall. But it was still contributing just as much to the revival of choral singing, setting an example to the many college Glee Clubs that discarded their mandolins and took up Palestrina, Bach and Vaughn Williams...
Davison expressed his character, ideals and aims probably best in his books on the state of American music. One work, Choral Conducting, is full of the shrewd, tactful stratagems he used to command the complete loyalty of his singers. Music Education in America, written in 1926, assaulted many of the pet notions of the public and the musical professions: he ridiculed sight-reading and compulsory piano lessons for young children and derided the idea that music was best taught by drill, when drill presented discipline and not understanding...