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Poulenc: Mass in G (the Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Shaw conducting; Victor, 1 side LP). Composed in 1937, this Mass, austerely but tenderly reverent, is one of the best works that have yet come from Frenchman Francis Poulenc. Shaw's clean choral work is up to his usual high standard. On the other side: Benjamin Britten's graceful A Ceremony of Carols. Recording: excellent...
Yale's ability to sing college songs is well known; but while Harvard is not famous to its renditions of Segreto or Rex, the Harvard Glee Club is known for its ability to render these renditions in a manner becoming to the world's better choral groups...
Upon Dr. Davison's retirement, Professor G. Wallace Woodworth '24 continued to enlarge the Club's reportoire, vary its style, and to concentrate basically on further exploration of classical choral work. Simultaneously, and on the light side, the programs of the Club drew on the vast literature of folk songs, the glees and catches of the eighteenth century, and the gay operettas of Offenbach, Johann Strauss, and Gilbert and Sillivan...
Though the orchestra follows the principals well, it is occasionally ragged and unwieldy in several choral numbers. In the first act it is too loud for most of the soloists, and during most of the evening it lags, slowing down the pace considerably...
Judging the home-made lyrics at the annual Radcliffe song contest Tuesday, November 14, on the Quadrangle will be Dean Small, Vera Lorch '51, president of Choral Society, and William Russell, assistant conductor of choral...