Word: choraler
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...membership; so he decided he would be an accompanist with the club. Woody delights in telling how Davison suggested that he "go play the drums in the band." Nevertheless, he must have made a moderately good accompanist, for when he graduated in 1924 he became conductor of the Radcliffe Choral Society and assistant conductor of the Harvard Glee Club...
WHCN will air the joint Glee Club-Radcliffe choral society recital from Sanders Theatre tonight beginning at 8:30 and running until 10 o'clock...
Presenting an ambitious offering of sacred and profane music, the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society over-extended themselves last night in a program that was often interesting, but, in toto, musically unsatisfying. The performances of music ranging from sixteenth century Palestrina and Gabrieli to a Hindemith setting of Walt Whitman continually emphasized text and style at the expense of sound, and the intricacies of the complex part singing were never fully realized by renditions not quite up to Harvard-Radcliffe standards...
...lighted the successful rendition of a somewhat redundant Gertrude Stein text set to Virgil Thomson music, and the Radcliffe group did nicely with Professor Ballantine's fine blending of music and words in Lake Werna's Water, a work dedicated to Professor Woodworth. A good performance of the Hindemith Choral Fugue ended the program...
Handel: Messiah (Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Malcolm Sargent conducting; Huddersfield Choral Society, with Isobel Baillie, soprano, Gladys Ripley, contralto, James Johnston, tenor and Norman Walker, basso; Columbia, two albums-38 sides, $22.50). An outstanding performance but not quite as good as the version done by Sir Thomas Beecham more than 15 years ago. Performance: orchestra and chorus, excellent; soloists, fair...