Word: choraler
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...halberds guarded a torch-lit stage in Sanders Theater Sunday night, the setting would have been complete for the fine concert of fifteenth and sixteenth century choral music. Second in a series of three chamber music concerts for the benefit of the Radcliffe Seventieth Anniversary Fund, Sunday's program followed its predecessor in featuring rarely heard "old" music. Once your ear was tuned to the modal harmonies and the hollow sound of open fifths, you could close your eyes and hear Buxtehude, DesPres, Lassus, and Dufay, dreaming of gold brocade and tapestries...
Lorna Cooke DeVaron, who now teaches and conducts at the New England Conservatory, led the group from the Glee Club and Choral Society through the difficult but rewarding concert. She deserves high praise, first, for planning a unique program which made no apologics to anyone, and, second, for her graceful and precise direction. She managed to keep her singers where they belonged through most of the rhythmically complicated numbers; particularly effective was Le Jeune's "Revecy venir du printans...
...they get to Leverett House Yale men will hear the Whiffenpoofs themselves, as well as another Yale choral group, the Orpheus and Bacchus Society, at Kirkland. It is through the Crimson Key that the HDC will open its doors to Yale students with its production of Amphytrion...
Cooking, painting, knitting, and sports classes for all ages also call for leaders. One Radcliffe girl is directing a choral group of singers from the staff of Massachusetts General Hospital. Miss Heaton terms settlement house work as a "tremendous opportunity for Social Relations majors, or anyone else interested in people...
Sanders Theater has caused nothing but trouble in the past two years. Two active dramatic clubs, a rejuvenated band, two orchestras, and the Glee Club-Choral Society have wrangled for space in the ancient auditorium, while Dean Watson and the Corporation office have split the handling of the conflicting requests...