Word: choraler
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...your columns to call the attention of music lovers in the student body to the coming concert by the Choral Art Society of Boston? This society, which consists of a remarkably fine professional chorus of mixed voices under the leadership of Wallace Goodrich, has for its special object the rendering of the a capella compositions of Palestrina. Lasso and other mediaeval composers of sacred music. It also performs the madrigals of the famous English school, Powland, Vilbye and others. This year the society renews its generous offer of the past few seasons by admitting any member of the Music Department...
...beacon light that announces the fall of Troy. As he proclaims the good news to the people in the palace, twelve old men of Argos, who form the chorus, come on the stage, chanting as they march. They remain on the stage throughout the play, and in their choral odes express the popular feeling of the men of Argos in regard to the events portrayed there. Agamemnon soon returns from Troy, bringing in his train the Trojan captive, Cassandra, of whom Clytaemnestra is jealous. Despite the king's request to have the prisoner treated gently, the queen orders her roughly...
...first 800 verses of Aeschylus' poem, most of them in the form of choral odes, make a kind of moral prologue. It may sometimes seem to us that the plot does not advance with sufficient rapidity; at other moments the author seems to bridge over the past and present, disregarding the unity of time. He makes Agamemnon appear at home the morning after Troy was captured. This, Dr. Verrall and other critics consider a monstrous heresy in regrad to unity. But the sheer length of the choral odes creates a sense of the passage of time, so that no incongruity...
...music of the play has been composed by Mr. J. E. Lodge, and will be designedly simple in order to suggest the subordination of the original accompaniament to the words of the poet. All choral odes were sung in unison; and this effect will be retained in the processional song of the opening of the play. The formal choral stasima, however, will be arranged in harmony by Mr. Lodge in order to avoid monotony...
...annual meeting for the announcement of academic distinctions won by students in Harvard College was held last night in Sanders Theatre. After a choral by the Appleton Chapel choir, Dean Hurlbut, who presided, briefly out-lined the purpose of the meeting. It is a fallacy, he said, that the first scholar in college is not the first man in the world, and it is the gentleman who will address you this evening who has helped to prove this statement, Frederick Perry Fish of the class...