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...Friday night esplanade concert the Harvard Glee Club Radcliffe Choral Society sang tour choruses from Bach's B -minor Mass: Kyrie, cum Saneto Spiritu, Crucifixus, and Dona Nobis. Despite the difficulties of outdoor singing the chorus sounded full and resonant, and had a good deal of "life" and enthusiasm for the music; but the tempo was noticeably ragged at places, especially in the very rapid and difficult Cum Sancto Spiritu. Also, there was insufficient shading of dynamics, although this may have resulted from the necessity of singing loud all this time in order to be heard outdoors...
...Sanders theatre Sunday afternoon a smaller picked group of singers from the Glee Club and Choral Society, under the direction of G. Wallace Woodworth, performed Mozart's cantata Regina Coell (K. 108) written when the composer was only 16 years old. The chorus here demonstrated a great deal of precision and feeling, perhaps because of the smaller group and the superior acoustics of Sanders Theatre. Margaret Codd Goldovsky sang the soprano solo, Ora Pro Nobis, from this aria, with great feeling and expression, although in the coloratura passages of the last movement she seemed still to lack that almost instrumental...
...hundred Harvard and Radcliffe voices will blend into Bach's B Minor Mass for the benefit of the crowd at the Esplanade tonight when the Glee Club and the choral Society get together to present their first joint concert of the summer term...
...Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society, under the direction of Prof. G. Wallace Woodworth, will give a concert with the Boston "Pops" Orchestra Friday night at the Esplanade...
Some 40 members of the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society accepted the invitation of the Boston Symphony Orchestra to attend the opening concert ad helped fill the first floor of Sanders, but future concerts (of this series, in which they will take part August-15.16) will probably have to be better attended by the Cambridge public if these concerts are to be a financial success...