Word: choraler
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wearing long-sleeved dresses, two young men in black sweaters, a middle-aged woman who never used her lorgnette, and a Senior in formal attire who left early, along with some six-hundred ordinary people attended last night's joint concert by the Radcliffe Dance Group and the Radcliffe Choral Society. The evening began and closed well and there were several delightful numbers in the middle, but it was too long...
...Choral Society with G. Wallace Woodworth conducting, opened with the full chorus singing Hassler's Cantate Domino from Sacri Concentus. For such a large group, the girls appeared excellently drilled. The Choral Society did not fare so well for most of the remainder of the evening, the Sopranos in particular being somewhat thin and ofttimes shrill. The group sang Mabel Daniels' new Carol of a Rose. The selection, with words from a fifteenth century Flemish poem, was quite unexciting. The highpoint of the Choral Society's performance was a full and lively rendition of Schubert's Valses Nobles...
...their first joint number, the Choral Society and the Dance Group performed Bach's Guter Hirte, Trost der Deinen. The choreography for two women and a man had little rapport with the Bach, and all by itself was pretty poor. The three dancers did not seem agreed as to the meaning of the simple pastoral dance they were trancing their way through. The Bach was followed by Two Choruses from Alice in Wonderland. The Lobster Quadrille, featuring six girls in red flannel pajamas playing crustacean, was not art but was lots of fun. Father William was charmingly danced by Jane...
...both the Dance Group and the Choral Society had been a bit more selective, the evening would have been considerable more enjoyable. Even so, the performance was generally entertaining...
...Glee Club's proposed trip to the Brussels World Fair and to the Vienna Choral Festival this summer has been cancelled, following the rejection of the group's appeal for federal...