Word: choraler
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...excerpt from the Yale News that appeared on the editorial page of the CRIMSON on April 25th, urging the desirability, from a musical point of view, of the holding of a joint choral concert by the Glee Clubs of Yale and Harvard, make this a fitting occasion to announce the tentative plans that have been made for just such a concert as the writer of the article proposes...
...their appeal to the general concert-going public in addition to the college alumni of the larger cities. Their programs have been expanded beyond the limits of the conventional group of college gloes and made to include classical numbers much more difficult and finished in the realms of male choral music. Harvard has even gone so far as to no longer limit membership in her glee club to undergraduates but in the quest of the most polished voices obtainable, has admitted many from the graduate schools. Yale has not gone to this extreme but has decidedly improved the general level...
...tall, concentrated, sparse-haired primate of the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. He gave them Brahm's "Requiem" last week, as personal a thing as ever a German wrote. "Behold, all flesh is grass and all the glory of man is as the flower of the field," sang the Choral Symphony Society and Soprano Elizabeth Rethberg and Baritone Fraser Gange. "Behold," Conductor Furtwangler seemed to say: "This is out of the Bible phrased by that humble countryman of mine, Martin Luther. This music is by another countryman, aged 34, who had lately lost his mother. This is not church ritual...
...London, all the symphonies, chamber music compositions, his only opera Fidelio, were offered. In Boston, at the exact moment of his death, the chimes of Tufts college rang the choral melody of the Ninth Symphony, while chapels, concert halls and symphony orchestras responded with other Beethoven music. In New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Cleveland, St. Louis, New Orleans, Portland, it was the same. The next day, Sunday, churches of all sects, worshiped in his music. Perhaps the comedy was finished, for every tribute grand enough to be fitting the memory Ludwig van Beethoven consisted of the music created...
...Davison will not only outline Beethoven's varied career and describe his works, but he will demonstrate by playing on the piano. Mr. Woodworth, who is director of the Radcliffe Choral Society, will assist Dr. Davison in the course of the lecture, playing several duets with the latter, as well as some solo pieces...