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...star of the film was clearly the chorus; and the whole production seemed to be organized around the chorus as a focal core. They sang beautifully together and were right on pitch. Violet Teass wrote the fine choral chants. And Henry Hallstrom's extensive musical score, played by 21 members of the National Symphony Orchestra, was unusually distinguished and carefully synchronized. No less expert was the chorus' dancing of Eleanor Struppa's choreography. Executed with precision, the dancing adapted most effective the modern Martha Graham stylistic approach...
Forty-five members of the Harvard Summer School Chorus will appear in a program of choral music, including Renaissance, Baroque, and contemporary composition, on Monday, July 30, at 9 p.m. on Channel 2, WGBH...
...this invitingly gaudy material Composer Moore has wrought a clean, melodious score which succeeds in conveying strong period flavor without being condescendingly folksy. Its melodic high spots include Baby Doe's Willow Song, the stunning Silver Song (sung by Met Coloratura Dolores Wilson) and a moving choral, Lovely Evening. Sophisticated musically, the score nevertheless is marked by a clarity rare to the U.S. opera stage. "Most composers today seem to be writing under such influences as Schoenberg and Stravinsky," says Moore. "I tried to return to melody as the key to communication." Others will get a chance to decide...
...real music lovers' mecca, the piece de resistance of the whole summer's entertainment schedule, will be the annual Berkshire Festival at Tanglewood, in the picturesque Berkshire Hills of Western Massachusetts. Here symphony, choral and chamber music concerts will be given for six weeks, July 4 (this Wednesday) to August 12, on what the press agent calls "the spacious pine-clad estate where a century ago Nathaniel Hawthorne was a guest and told his 'Tanglewood Tales...
...opening program of the series, a performance of Honegger's "King David" by the M.I.T. Choral Society, will take place at 8:30 p.m. this Thursday, July 5, in M.I.T.'s ultra-modern Kresge Auditorium. The next event will be "An Evening of Carl Dreyer's Films: Vampire and The Passion of Joan of Arc," which will take place next Wednesday, July 11, in Harvard's Allston Burr Hall, Room...