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Perry said yesterday, however, that the choral group is definitely invited to participate in at least one of next year's Saturday evening concerts. So far this season the club has sung in three of these concerts and has appeared with the Symphony on many other occasions...
...Korsakov's Scheherazade, 2) Franck's Symphony in D Minor, 3) Ravel's Bolero, 4) Wagner's Parsifal, 5) Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, 6) Brahms's Requiem, 7) Dvorak's Symphony No. 5 ("New World"). 8) Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 ("Choral"), 9) Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, 10) Tchaikovsky's Symphony...
Last night's tribute to Professor Archibald. "Doc" Davison convincingly demonstrated his enormous contribution to all branches of choral music. The Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society, singing alumni, flashy trumpeters, and a cheering audience of dignitaries made the concert a dramatic success...
...program. The presence of works by Byrd, Bach, and Milhaud is, of course, directly attributable to Doc's revolutionizing the scope of collegiate glee clubs. Serious music of this sort, with difficulties for listeners as well as performers, is now an expected and fundamental part of any choral concert. Dufay's Gloria in Excelsis Deo was, for me, the high point of the evening. It pushes forward to the "Amen" with rhythmic ferocity--the strong beats of each phrase pile on top of one another, one tension is resolved by another, and the general excitement lasts even through the quieter...
...excellences of the Glee Club and Choral Society are so abundant that one almost takes them for granted. But last night their precision, vitality and complete immersion in the music set even higher standards. Perhaps their superlative performance was inspired by G. Wallace Woodworth, Davison's successor, who left a hospital bed to conduct them. Or perhaps it was their own tribute to the man who, retiring this year, is responsible directly or indirectly for their every success...