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Members spend two nights a week in rehearsal under the baton of Malcolm H. Holmes '28, Dean of the New England Conservatory of Music. So far this season the group has performed at Sanders Theater with the Radcliffe Choral Group and travelled to Swampscott to play at the Tedesco Country Club. Planned for the coming term is another Sanders performance and a trip to Groton School, as well as joint concerts with Wellesley, Mt. Holyoke, and Colby Junior College...
...music & lyrics by Kurt Weill & Langston Hughes; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman & the Playwrights' Co.) is much more folk opera than musical-a re-handling of Elmer Rice's famous outside slice of life almost entirely in musical terms. There are arias as well as tunes; septets, choral passages, large-scale orchestral effects, recitatives. As music, some of this is fancy, facile, too high-pitched. But, thanks to the rest of the score and to the residual vitality in Elmer Rice's play, Street Scene is steadily interesting musical theater...
Bach: Cantata No. 106: "God's Time Is Best" (Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society with chamber orchestra, G. Wallace Woodworth conducting; Technicord, 6 sides). An early Bach cantata for a funeral service meticulously performed on the small scale in which it was written...
Repeating last night's performance, the Harvard-Radcliffe Choral Society will present programs of Christmas carols in Memorial Chapel today at 4:30 and at 8:15 o'clock. The selections will include pieces by Brahms, Holst, Handel, and others...
...even more distinctive, being the first recording in the world of the Haydn oratorio, The Seasons. Another fine technical job features this set, which every lover of Haydn should at least hear, for its appealing simplicity and melodic beauty. The arias are like those of Mozart operas, the choral numbers serene, the orchestration surprisingly rich...