Word: choraler
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There are very few composers, if any, who can stand beside Handel in choral writing. After centuries of evolution, music for voices as a definite expressive element reached the apex of development in his works, a peak that never again has been reached. Later masters, such as Mozart and Beethoven, studied his writings sedulously in an effort to compose as tellingly for voices as he did; yet, in net effect, his works stand unrivalled...
...Harvard Glee Club is outstanding among college organizations for the originality and variety of its repertoire. The concert which the Club, together with the Radcliffe Choral Society and the brass choir of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, is preparing for Thursday of next week will increase considerably its reputation for originality...
Sitting blithely on their scaffolds, they repulsed all comers with threatening paint brushes, refusing to admit their parts in the choral efforts. When the members of the crew were questioned as to the exact identity of their Caruses, they launched into a tirade of accusation and counter-accusation that degenerated into a colorful fight...
Faure is essentially a song-writer--in fact it has been said that all his best works are songs, whether written for voice or not. Nevertheless, the Requiem and Pelleas and Melisande are enough in themselves to prove Faure's effectiveness in music for orchestral and choral groups. It is true that he often gives himself over to lyricism at the expense of formal considerations, but his ingenuity in harmony and melody is often sufficient, especially in smaller works, to overbalance his looseness in structure...
Since the time of the sixteenth century choral school, Spain's place in the history of music has not been particularly impressive. That a change has come about in the musical status of this nation is demonstrated by the fact that two concerts devoted wholly or in part to the keyboard music of Spain will be given here this week. Thursday evening George Copeland, celebrated for his interpretation of the modern Spaniards, will play a program in Jordan Hall including several compositions of this school. We are primarily interested, however, in Joaquin Nin-Culmell's concert of Spanish music from...