Word: choraler
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...matronly pupils, then inviting their comment and criticism. When they had gained some acquaintance of strange instruments, he brought a clavicord, fore-runner of the grand piano, and played music appropriate to the tinkly, 19th-century instrument. By the time the year was out. Pinkham had built up a choral group from his Jamaica Negroes and conducted them in numerous performances before audiences invited to the House...
Twice a week 200 Harvard students leave their studies for an hour-long rehearsal with the Harvard Glee Club, rated the world's best choral society. Founded about 85 years ago, the club first achieved real importance when Archibald T. Davidson, Professor of Choral Music, took it over...
Each year, the Glee Club gives one big work in conjunction with the Radcliffe Choral Society and the Boston Symphony Orchestra to aid the Pension Fund for Retired Musicians. Under Serge Koussevitsky's direction, they gave Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis" last year and Bach's "Mass in B minor" the year before. All members of the club join in this concert, though only about 60 go on each of the other concerts and--tours...
...sparkling British star, Anna Neagle. Profiting by the lesson of No, No, Nanette (TIME, Dec. 30), which he made without featuring the musicomedy's best assets, the tuneful score of Vincent Youmans, he plugs Who? for all it is worth. Four different orchestrations deliver it in ballad, tap, choral and semi-rumba rhythm. Three more Kern tunes (Sunny, D'Ya Love Me?, Two Little Blue Birds) are tossed in for good measure...
Sister Martina took music degrees at Chicago's Bush Conservatory and the University of Michigan, but until last summer she composed nothing more pretentious than Christmas songs and little choral pieces. Then she began looking for a narrative poem. The Highwayman ended the search...