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Robert Shaw, something of a prodigy at his profession, was nagged by doubt. Only 32, the top chorus master in the U.S., he was bossing his own 185-voice amateur Collegiate Chorale (sometimes broken down into smaller groups, e.g., the RCA Victor Chorale, the Columbia Choral) and preparing the choral parts for Toscanini's broadcasts of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Verdi's Falstaff, Requiem. But, as he diagnosed himself, "I don't handle the orchestra as well as the singers and I want to find out why." He promised himself a two-year breather to find...
Last week Bob Shaw was back in Carnegie Hall with proof that, wherever he has been sitting for the past 24 months, he has found some of the answers-if not yet all the right ones. For the first of an ambitious series of seven concerts featuring choral "masterworks" since Bach, he presented his professional 40-voice Robert Shaw Chorale arranged behind a 45-piece orchestra. In the opening Mozart Requiem he proved that he now has one of the most highly trained and carefully blended chorus-and-orchestra combinations in the world, capable of far more clarity than...
...City of Boston Festivities Committee, this was one of many concerts given from 12 until 2 and until 7 until 9 every day on the Common. Inside, Master of Ceremonies Leo Hines was instructing various groups which wandered in. "We're singing over 2,000 hymns and chorals until January 6," he said, "in over 30 languages. As a matter of fact, Harvard sung the other day until they were rained out." This afternoon, the Committee is featuring the St. Williams CYO Band on the City Hall Plaza. "They'll all be dressed as the Pifferari and playing bagpipes...
...University Choir and the Radcliffe Choral Society will sing a selection of carols at Christmas services in Memorial Church at 8:15 p.m. tonight and 4:30 and 8:15 p.m. tomorrow...
...trouble lies partly in the overall design of Paint Your Wagon, in its concern with the swarming life-the rise, feminization and decline-of an entire mining town. Though fine for choral or choreographic doings, the crowded cast is cumbrous and untidy for storytelling. For half the evening, moreover, it is virtually an all-male performance-and the show needs women almost as badly as the miners. The gals' arrival brightens things up; but, for all that, the town only seems larger, the show longer...