Word: choraler
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...hundred guests, including Choral alumnae, present Choral members, and members of the administration, attended the Radcliffe Choral Society's banquet last night honoring the twenty-fifth anniversary of G. Wallace Woodworth '24 as conductor of the group...
...visitors were not taking 37-year-old Composer Dello Joio entirely on faith. The lucid, lyrical music of his 30-odd choral works, chamber pieces and ballet scores has already won him two Guggenheim fellowships and the New York Music Critics Circle Award for 1948-49. He had hit on the idea for his opera after seeing the movie Joan of Arc, thought he could supply what the movie had largely left out: Joan's "inner life...
...young Czech Conductor Rafael Kubelik was tempted, but he turned it down to take over the Chicago Symphony (TIME, Jan. 9). After six months of negotiation, Sir Malcolm had accepted on condition that he could spend half his time free-lancing at home & abroad and conducting the roof-raising choral concerts which are his specialty (he has recorded both Handel's Messiah and Mendelssohn's Elijah for Columbia...
...some of the festival's choral numbers, he had assembled 1,800 singers, including some 600 children. Once the enthusiasm had to be coaxed out of the kids. Rehearsing Benjamin Britten's Spring Symphony, Busch urged the boys to make their whistling less "polite"; he promptly got a resounding wolf whistle, and smiled his appreciation. Said he: "They know their stuff. I bring it out of them...
Vera Lorch '51 will head next year's Radcliffe choral group, ex-president Mildred Blacklock '50 announced last night. Other new officers are: Christine Bosshard '51, vice-president; Judith Grose '52, secretary; and Joan Dexter '52, treasurer...