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Managed by Richard F Gifford '43, the opera's cast includes M. Willoughby Todd and Marjorie Rice of Radcliffe, Robert Soule of the Medical School, and Philip Stolar of the New England Conservatory in the leading roles. The pierian Sodality and the Radcliffe Choral Society Provide the body of the music...
...teacher, but is both. Now at the University of Virginia, he has also taught at Wellesley and University of California, was director of Philadelphia's Curtis Institute until he disagreed with the board of directors last year. Best known for his Symphony No. 2, he has also composed choral works, incidental music for the theater, but no previous opera. For the past ten years all his composing has been on commission. Ignoring the many composers who work on hope and faith, he says: "A musician is like an architect; nobody is going to draw plans until someone is ready...
First scheduled concert is this Saturday night at Princeton, where the Orchestra, in conjunction with the Princeton Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society, will present an all-Bach program...
Chief work on the program was the world's premiere of "The Defense of Corinth." In the modern manner it combines a choral narrative with vocal choruses. The narrative, written by Elliot Carter '30, was rendered by Quinten Hope...
Featured in the second part of the program was a capella chorus by Norman Lockwood from a text by Walt Whitman. In 1938 it was awarded the World Fair choral composition prize. Other numbers included four choruses from Offenbach's opera "La Bella Helene," folk songs arranged by Dvorak and Delany, and three Bach chorales...