Word: choraler
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After the concert there will be a joint meeting of the Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society at which parts of the Brahms Requiem will be sung...
Bethlehem this spring entrusted its festival to the leadership of Bruce Anderson Carey, a bespectacled, broad-shouldered Canadian of 57 who teaches at Girard College in Philadelphia, trains and conducts the Mendelssohn Glee Club so well that Conductor Leopold Stokowski frequently engages it to sing difficult choral works with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Like blond-mopped Stokowski, Bruce Carey conducted last week without a baton, bringing out the Mass's mighty effects with direct, compelling gestures of his two bare hands. During intermission Festival directors met to discuss ways & means of perpetuating Fred Wolle's idea, to keep Bethlehem...
...shrubbery, made vulgar noises with wind instruments, unhitched the Harvard boys' horses so that the Glee Club had to walk back to Cambridge. During the next 25 years there was another short-lived Glee Club; then a third which was organized "to acquaint the College with good choral music." Last week in Cambridge this Glee Club, in white ties and tail coats, gave a birthday concert which would have taxed the most experienced of choristers...
...artistically as professional choruses. Because of his candid, unassuming ways, his free & easy speech, the boys listened to him as they would to a football coach. For him they learned to sing in Latin, French and German, just as the music was written originally. They learned that good choral singing does not have to be exaggeratedly loud or soft, high or low. In 1919, to the distress of many an alumnus, they announced they were through with rah-rah songs. Financed by Banker Otto Hermann Kahn and Harvard alumni they took a European tour. Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky was so impressed...
...year celebration program. The radio concert will be given at WBZ and will be sent over a coast-to-coast network of the National Broadcasting Company. E. B. Hill, professor of Music, will speak on the history, of the Sodality, and the orchestra will be assisted by the Radcliffe Choral Society...