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...Choral music will be under the direction of Mr. G. Wallace Woodworth, Conductor of the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society and the University Organist-Choirmaster. The Summer School Chorus will be open to all members of the Summer School and will meet for rehearsals on Monday and Thursday evenings from 7:30 to 8:30 o'clock in Sever...
...expected that the Chorus will include many of the present members of the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society as well as members of the choruses in other colleges who are enrolled here during the Summer Term. All students interested in singing are eligible whether or not they have had previous training. Registration will take place in Sever 11 on Monday, June 29, from 3 to 6 o'clock, and after the first rehearsal of the Chorus that evening at 7:30 o'clock...
Once a year in the spring, the Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral society, and the Boston Symphony pool their talents, and give a Pension Fund Concert that for many is the highlight of Boston's musical season. The bulk of these concerts has usually been one of the great religious choral works, simply because the Latin biblical and liturgical texts with their unity of feeling, their rich variety of emotional colors, and their singable sonority have always inspired the best composers to their best choral writing. This year, Koussevitsky has chosen two magnificent old ticket-sellers for his program...
...prop up his sagging material by orthodox sonata devices which often retard the music rather than help it. Beethoven in the Ninth, however, despite the massiveness of much of the thematic material and the lengthened time-scale, has managed to keep a perfect equilibrium between the parts. The choral movement, one of the most exhausting twenty minutes of singing in musical literature, from a purely musical standpoint develops logically from the rest of the symphony, but, in my opinion, does not quite equal the other three movements in inspiration...
Some reactionaries, no doubt the same ones who are against opera in English or Goodman playing Mozart, don't like the choral movement merely because it is choral, and therefore not "pure" music. In this particular movement, however, Beethoven used his chorus symphonically, thus keeping the musical design intact, and making good use of the vibrant sonority of the human voice which remains the most basically expressive of all musical instruments...