Word: choraler
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...Tanglewood he brought Composers Aaron Copland and Paul Hindemith to teach composition; G. Wallace Woodworth, Chairman of Harvard University's Department of Music, for choral instruction; Herbert Graf, Metropolitan Opera Stage Director, to teach opera dramatics; New York Times Music Editor Olin Downes, Composer Roy Harris, and many another to lecture. By last week the month-old centre, with its 300-odd students, had worked its creator up into a well-turned ecstasy. Said Koussevitzky: "How can I speak of something part of myself, so much of my heart, a cherished ideal? It's like my child...
...Harris, a sobersided, high-brow composer, has never been ranked as a popular song-maker. Last month, on the day that Italy struck at France and England, Composer Harris sat thoughtfully down to some verses he had written. Four days later he finished a song for baritone and a choral setting, with an orchestral accompaniment full of plangent brasses and surging strings of the Preamble to the Constitution...
...testimony to Archibald T. Davison '05, Professor of Music, on his retirement as organist and choral director of Memorial Church was given by the Sunday Congregation at the Faculty Club last Monday evening...
Members of the club sang Fay's composition, "Harvard to the Harvard Team," a football song composed by him in 1914. At the end of the program members of the University thronged Widener's steps and joined with the choral group in a special rendition of the song for Mr. Fay, who was seated in front of the audience...
Sometimes known as the "Giant Fugue," the choral prelude, "Wir Glauben all' an einem Gott," was transcribed for orchestra in 1936 by Kohs, and has since then been played a number of times by the University of Chicago Orchestra, the New York Civic Orchestra under Edgar Schenkman, and the Illinois Symphony Orchestra...