Word: choraler
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...your issue of last Saturday you quote the words M. Serge Koussevitsky of the Boston Symphony Orchestra has used in praise of the Harvard Glee Club. They are not extravagant and seem to most men in the College just another such tribute as the choral organization Dr. Davison has built up merits...
...Harvard has the best trained chorus I have ever heard in any country of the world," declared M. Serge Koussevitzky, Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, in a statement to the CRIMSON yesterday. "Dr. Davison with his Glee Club and the Choral Society of Radcliffe, has done what countless musicians have only partially succeeded in doing; he has instilled into his singers real feeling for the music they work with...
...Said Charles F.G. Masterman of him: "Music is not only a negation but a torture, and he once confessed to me that the long choral services of St. Paul's were a physical misery to him, sometimes becoming almost unendurable...
...wonder and the possession of the performance. Two choirs, three hundred strong, of young voices fresh-timbred, full-throated, plastic, susceptible: sopranos of luster, altos velvet-piled, the striding richness of basses, the bright ascent of tenors. Two choirs schooled also in the usual and the exceptional virtues of choral singing; then practised in this music, every accent and modulation, every gradient and climax, had become a free, full speech...
...Then the hours, the final hours, that shall make incandescent this choral virtue, these songful freedoms, that musical understanding, such stir and mood already a-beat and aglow. Dr. Davison began them; Mr. Koussevitsky finished them. The audience sat in away and thrall to the power and the beauty so engendered...