Word: choraler
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...interview last night, Serge Kousevitsky, conductor of the Boston Symphony, declared, "The Radcliffe Choral Society and the Harvard Glee Club when they are together under Mr. Woodworth are the finest amateur choral group in the world, and they can stand against the professional societies...
Busy Dean Dixon also works with a choral group, gives three free weekly music appreciation courses to both Negro and white children. These he teaches by inventing melodramatic stories, substituting musical notes for letters and words. "I try to use as much Superman stuff as possible," says Dean Dixon...
...Signet Medal for Achievement in the Arts" is being given this year to Archibald T. Davison '06, formerly professor of Choral Music, who has recently been given the chair of James Edward Ditson Professor of Music...
Beethoven: Missa Solemmis (Serge Koussevitzky conducting the Boston Symphony, with Soprano Jeannette Vreeland, Contralto Anna Kaskas, Tenor John Priebe, Basso Norman Cordon, the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society; Victor; 24 sides; two volumes; $13). Beethoven, a great-souled humanitarian rather than a churchgoer, wrote his Solemn Mass for the installation of an archduke as an archbishop (he finished it three years too late). One of the greatest and most complicated of choral works it receives here a great recording-assembled from three different concert performances in Boston...
...contrast to the bungled recording of the Missa is Victor's album of Mediaeval and Renaissance Choral Music (M739), sung by the Pius X School of Liturgical Music. This is a fascinating collection of early chants and cathedral liturgies, with selections from later masters like Obrecht, Taverner, and Palestrina, beautifully performed by the all-female chorus of the Pius X School...