Word: choraler
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...Victor, 2 LPs). A performance on a memorable occasion: the reopening of Wagner's Festspielhaus at Bayreuth in 1951. The recording has a predominantly heavy effect, partly because of foggy fidelity, and there are some sloppy attacks in the orchestra, but there are also some stunning bursts of choral sound, some impressive singing by soloists (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth Hongen, Hans Hopf, Otto Edelmann), and some unique French horn performances in the scherzo...
...Music Department Festival in honor of the opening of the new Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library will begin tonight at 8:30 p.m. with a concert in Memorial Church by the Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Bach Society orchestra...
...Schmidt has done it again. He managed to prepare some 80 or so amateur singers in less than six weeks and put on a superlative concert in Sanders Theatre. The result showed the wisdom of the Summer School administration in disregarding its unwritten rule of not engaging the same choral conductor in successive summers. Schmidt's accomplishment is all the more remarkable in view of the facts that he was beset by unusual handicaps this summer and that he chose works of greater difficulty than in the past...
Last summer Schmidt presented one of the big Brahms works, which constitute the New Testament of choral music. This year he turned to the Old Testament--Handel--and gave us a sizable hunk of the charming serenata Acis and Galatea. The chorus wove lovely, if at times a bit breathy, garlands of sound, ably assisted by soloists Sara-Jane Smith and Antonio Giarraputo...
...Cambridge are accustomed during the winter academic year to the best in choral music and the tops in performance. Conductor Schmidt has maintained these standards and shown that he is just about the best in the business...