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...Wallace Woodworth '24, and accompanied by the the Radcliffe and Harvard orchestra, the Radcliffe Choral Society last night performed before more than 1000 people in Sanders Theatre...
Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, and so, to a qualified extent, hath the Radcliffe Choral Society. Tonight, to get the season under way, the whole Society (approximately 180 strong, count them yourself) will perform free gratis in Sanders, and, in addition, the long-awaited first fruits of the Radcliffe Orchestra-Pierian Sodality merger will be on display. The program should be solace and balm for the exam-weary, and a chance to hear some good but seldom performed choral works. Under the enthusiastic guidance of "Woody" and "Mal" Holmes, Harvard and Radcliffe are among the few colleges...
16th and 17th century music start off the program. Choral writing got under way before orchestral, and these centuries were more or less its golden age. I am told that "Nymphe and Shepherds" of Purcell was written for a play called the "Libertine," a fact not mentioned on the program but given here for what it is worth. Following are two religious pieces of the 17th century, "Confitemini Domino" by Constantini and a setting for chorus of the 134th psalm by Bach's contemporary, Sweelink. The 18th century is represented by a beautiful chorus from Gluck's "Orpheus...
...Glee Club is known wherever choral singing is of interest, and there are thousands upon thousands of people who have enjoyed their varied programs and powerful, clear voices. In fact, Serge Koussevitzky, conductor of the world-famous Boston Symphony Orchestra, has declared that they are the best such group he has heard...
Early American Music was a scream from the same eagle. Opera was popular in every major city. In Philadelphia Andrew Adgate projected, in 1786, a great choral concert, with singers from every section of Philadelphia society. His grandiose plan, which fizzled, was to anneal all social disparities through the use of "solfa," the powerful archaic open scale which artisans and farmers still knew from the Middle Ages, but which the musically literate upper classes had begun to scorn. In Boston the one-eyed crippled tanner, William Billings, was even bolder. He got the cello into church, and the much more...