Word: choraler
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...promise you that I will be uncompromisingly severe. Do you promise me to put in some very hard work, something you have never done before?" Gian-Carlo promised. And, says Scalero, "he abided by his agreement." Thanks to Scalero's perseverance in making him compose simple motets (polyphonic choral works), Menotti is now a master at writing canons (the complicated, contrapuntal version of what children sing in "rounds" such as Row, Row, Row Your Boat), and they continually show up in his operas in clever trios, quartets, and quintets...
...Boston these day's can't help but be compared to Serge Koussevitzky's interpretation of the same work, either as performed in Symphony Hall two years ago or as released on records. The version given by Charles Munch with the Boston Symphony, the Glee Club, and the Radcliffe Choral Society, yesterday afternoon was certainly different, and in many places better...
...chorus work was magnificent throughout. Great credit must go to Professor Woodworth who prepared the Glee Club and Choral Society. It must be extraordinarily difficult to rehearse them for Koussevitzky one year and change style completely two years later for Munch. Their response to the conducting through all of Beethoven's surprises was excellent, and their top speed singing in the Gloria was nothing short of amazing...
Porhaps the most successful (and most unique) part of the program was a series of glees, canons, and catches. These are unaccompanied choral pieces vaguely related to rounds, and they are sometimes intricately constructed. The "Noblemen and Gentlemen's Catch Club of Adams House" picked its way gingerly through four glees, a canon, and a catch, accompanying its singing with stage actions such as shrugged shoulders and waving forefingers. This organization claims descent from the original Noblemen and Gentlemen's Catch Club (1761) which punished sour notes by making the offender drink a glass of wine. "It is this spirit...
Radcliffe freshmen will begin to sell beanies and take orders for all kinds of stuffed animals today in Agassiz. Records having Radcliffe songs, sung by 'Cliffe Choral Society, and Radcliffiana, played by the Harvard Band, will go on sale to Radcliffe upprclassmen. Freshmen had first opportunity to buy the records before vacation...