Word: chorales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inspired by the last-minute news that "Doc" came back last night, the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society opened their first joint spring concert, yesterday afternoon at Symphony Hall, in the traditional manner with a study from a recognized master: Mozart. The special chorus from Harvard and Mr. Lautner, tenor, deserve to be complimented for the spontaneity of their interpretation of his choruses for Freemasons...
...trembled before the Fates (Gesang der Parzen--Brahms) and felt the triumph of Revelation (Nun ist das Heil--Bach). We offer it as our opinion that in "Elegischer Gesang" (Beethoven) we heard the best and most delightful singing of the afternoon; here were best displayed those tricks of choral technique for which the choruses most diligently strive; here, too, was the most perfect balance between the chorus and orchestra...
...joint concert to be given tomorrow by the Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society, and members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra should mark what may be a new era in Harvard choral history. The successful performances of a few of the great choral works under Dr. Koussovitsky have finally encouraged the two Cambridge organizations to undertake a concert of their own which should not simply indicate the climax of the season's work, but for its own merit should be counted as one of the year's outstanding musical events in this part of the world...
...continue, but as an educator it will no longer constitute such an essential factor. The public, in fact, is looking for a little more from the Harvard Glee Club than its individual concert programs. This expectation the Glee Club may fulfill by familiarizing the musical world with the great choral works...
That this can only be accomplished with the cooperation of a woman's chorus and a full orchestra is fairly obvious. By bringing the Glee Club together again with the Radcliffe Choral Society and the Boston Symphony Orchestra for a special concert, Mr. Woodworth is at once broadening the scope of the Glee Club's repertoire and providing his audience with a program of classical and modern choral works seldom heard. It is an experiment which should serve as a precedent...