Word: choraler
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Completing its first extended tour since 1941, the Glee Club presented concerts at five New York and Pennsylvania colleges during the spring recess. The high lights of the tour after performances at Skidmore College, Elmira College, Ogontz Junior College, and Briareliff manor Junior College was a concert of Sacred Choral Music presented at Vassar with the Vassar College Choir...
...first trip for this term, the Glee Club will sing at Wheaton College tonight, with Bach's "Magnificat" as its main selection. They will also appear tomorrow at Connecticut College in New London, and present a concert in Sanders Theatre March 26 in co-operation with the Radcliffe Choral Society...
...first time in 25 years, America's most famous community choral group, the Bethlehem Bach Choir, brought their music to Manhattan last week. It was a major job of logistics: 233 singers and 50 members of the Philadelphia Orchestra made the trip...
...that Bach himself had been content with a choir of 17 voices. Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's waspish Virgil Thomson: "Any chorus of 200 can make a majestic noise; and Mr. Ifor's [sic] chorus makes the most agreeable, the most brilliant and bright-sounding choral fortissimo I have ever heard. . . . But how much richer and grander it would be if Mr. Jones would cut his chorus down about 80 per cent and his orchestra by half...
...symphony for wind instruments, which he still thinks is a wonderful work but was too new for the public then. In 1930 Koussevitsky persuaded him to write a symphony for the 50th anniversary of the Boston Orchestra. Stravinsky, a devout Greek Catholic, wrote the Symphony of Psalms, with three choral movements sung in Latin. The next came in 1940, when the Chicago Symphony Orchestra celebrated its 50th anniversary. Says Stravinsky drily: "I am a composer of anniversaries." He composed a symphony in four parts, "in the classical way," which Chicago liked better than the critics. Last year the Philharmonic decided...