Word: choraler
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week Cincinnati held its 33rd festival. For nearly two years, three nights a week, the Festival Chorus had rehearsed the choral numbers that were to be its main attraction. The chorus' 400 earnest adult members included debutantes, cooks, physicians. chauffeurs, lawyers, knife grinders. All had attended rehearsals with religious regularity, knowing that sharp-nosed Festival Conductor Eugene Goossens would promptly bounce any half-hearted singer from the ranks...
...long symphony is seldom performed. When Leopold Stokowski played it in Philadelphia 23 years' ago, proud Philadelphians crowed as though they had hatched a world's series baseball team. But Cincinnatians just took it in their stride, put it on the same program with another hour-long choral epic, sat calmly through them both, then thundered their approval...
...program of light music by the pierian Sodality of 1808, under the direction of Malcolm H. Holmes '28, and a group of songs by the Gold Coasters Glee Club, assisted by members of the Radcliffe Choral Society, were the attractions of an Adams House concert last night...
...fame of Brahms as a symphonist has some what eclipsed his accomplishments as a choral composer, but the Requiem is firmly established as one of the few choral works which will receive regular and repeated performances for many years to come...
...Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society will close their current season as a joint organization tonight with the performance of the Brahms Requicm with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. This program is the culmination of the year-long labors of hundreds of students, and it manages at the same time to be one of the major musical events of Boston, for the excellence of the undergraduate group has been fully recognized...