Word: choraler
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...professional symphony orchestra before that first concert, given April 1, 1917, but since then it has become almost commonplace, not only for the Harvard-Radcliffe chorus, but for other college singing groups as well. No other chorus, however, can match the long, continuous association between the Glee Club and Choral society and the Boston symphony. Tomorrow night's performance of Berlioz' Damnation of Faust in Carnegie Hall will be the 100th joint concert by the chorus and orchestra in a series dating back to that first concert...
...first concert was more, however, than the start of a new association between the symphony and the Glee Club and Choral Society; it was also the start of a new association between the two singing groups. Ever since Davison had become conductor of the Harvard and Radcliffe singers, he had attempted to bring the two groups together. But the Glee Club members refused to have anything to do with Radcliffe. Consequently Davison had to start his plan in the University Chapel where, as choirmaster, he was in absolute control of the male singers...
Once Glee Club members had sung with the Choral society, Davison found it easy to persuade the whole glee Club to start rehearsing with Radcliffe. Until Muck's surprise appearance, no one except Davison thought the two groups would ever give a concert together, but the singers enjoyed rehearsing the songs for mixed voices...
When Pierre Monteux became conductor of the Boston Symphony in 1919, the reputation of the Glee Club and Choral Society was so well established that he did not even bother with an audition before inviting them to sing the grail scene of Wagner's Parsifal...
...Muck, Davison had to find a way to overcome Koussevitzky's prejudice. The task this time, however, was considerable easier. Even before the new conductor arrived in Boston, Davison had decided to have his chorus sing Brahms' German Requiem with the BSO. Monteux had never suggested such an ambitious choral piece, but Davison arranged to hire 60 members of the symphony for two performances of the work in April, 1925. He had planned to conduct these concerts himself, but at the last moment asked Koussevitzky to take his place, maintaining that although he liked to train choruses, he preferred...