Word: choraler
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...face, when I see myself in a mirror, I don't like it. It's all wrong." Modesty is never absent ("I always repeat myself -- each composer has a musical calligraphy"), but self-defense comes in handy too, as with suggestions that parts of The Mission echo the choral medievalism of a Carl Orff war-horse: "There is nothing in The Mission that reminds one of Carmina Burana! When people hear the choir singing out loud and staccato, they believe that is Carmina Burana, but they are deaf people who don't understand!" But no excuses are really necessary...
...volunteer. "It's been more difficult for him to replace me, because I'm still here, than for me to step aside," says Vanderveen. But his friends in the choir say singing means more to Vanderveen than he realizes. His key ring is an organ stop labeled "choral bass...
Buswell is unaccustomed to choral singing, and he drowns out everybody else. A few singers simply stop in the middle of a hymn, overwhelmed. Barber glares. Privately, he tells Buswell that he is even louder than the organ -- to no avail. Finally, at a Sunday rehearsal, Barber dresses Buswell down: "Look, your pianissimo is not our pianissimo. Turn it way down." In the hallway afterward, Buswell, abashed, tells the other singers, "I guess I really blew it in there...
...music catagory, three grants will fund projects by the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, the Harvard Wind Ensemble, and the Radcliffe Choral Society...
...Band, the Hasty Pudding, Collegium, and the Radcliffe Choral Society were all in attendance, and in performance as well. The Band offered one of the more entertaining exhibitions of the evening when it recreated the Boston Tea Party on the field...