Word: choraler
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...line with spirit building a student government mass meeting will be held tomorrow night ending with a sing. During the afternoon for the more talented Vocalists choral tryouts will be held in the Ghirlandajo Room of Agassiz from 2 to 4 o'clock...
This pronouncement on choral singing is the cornerstone of the new Fred Waring summer school of music in Delaware. Last week 560 music teachers from the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Hawaii and the Philippines had absorbed their lessons and were on their way back home to spread the Waring message to 1,500,000 students and concertgoers. It will not be long, Waring thinks, until practically everybody in the U.S. will be singing Waring-style...
...This year, as he celebrates his soth anniversary in show business, Fred Waring's big enthusiasm is his new career as a teacher. For a long time he and his top musicians have trooped around the country to hold classes in the Waring technique, especially as it fits choral singing. Waring, who thinks his own chorus is the best on the air, complains that he "can't understand what any other chorus in radio is singing...
...perfectionist," explains Fred in his twangy Pennsylvania Tone-Syllables. He can make the claim as both showman and businessman. The Waring Corp. (whose Waring Mixer is a U.S. kitchen and barroom standby) is still doing nicely. So are the Waring Musical Library, the Shawnee Press (which sells the Waring choral arrangements), concert bookings, recordings. All told, the Waring enterprises gross the Maestro "at least" $2 million a year...
...Anguish. In the tiny, clapboard opera theater at Tanglewood, Idomeneo was a joy to hear. Wrote the New York Times's Critic Noel Straus: "For its astounding choral writing alone, Idomeneo would be worthy of frequent hearings. No two of the choruses are alike. . . . Never was Mozart to write a finer operatic ensemble than the great quartet in this opera...