Word: chorales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This afternoon at 4.30 o'clock, the Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society will participate in the first orchestral rehearsal of the "Mass in B-minor", by Bach, which is to be performed under the auspices of the Pension Fund of the Boston Symphony Orchestra next Sunday. A second rehearsal for the latter half of the work will take place tomorrow afternoon at the same hour. The performance on Sunday will be given in two parts, commencing at 4.30 and 8.30 o'clock...
...Monday, March 7, the University singers will sing for the Temple Israel Lyceum in illustration of a lecture on "Choral Music in America" to be given by Dr. A. T. Davison '06, director. The Glee Club will collaborate with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the regular Symphony concerts on Friday and Saturday, March 18 and 19, when it will sing the "Faust Symphony," by Liszt. The next appearance of the Glee Club with the Boston Orchestra will be on Sunday, March 27, when the two organizations will combine with the Radcliffe Choral Society to perform again the "Mass...
Following its trip to New York and Vicinity during the spring recess the Club will join with the Radcliffe Choral...
...whole tenor of the article suggests a very hasty and inadequate command of both musical history and literature. For example, the Palestrina choral style which is known as that of the post-Trent period is entirely free from "incredible complexity". Dr. Pratt's statement that Gershwin shows possibilities of approaching such masters as Brahms and Mozart in choral effects and counterpoint is astonishing. Aside from the fact that the best choral works of Mozart and Brahms are of a serious nature, a careful analysis of the works reveals no similarity in either their construction or the final effects produced...
Besides several vague and misleading phrases, such as "cultural sensations," "sheer ugly effects," and "specific thoughts", there is one point which is quite inaccurate. The Harvard Glee Club is a choral organization and, I am afraid, would fail to bring to light subtle harmonies in a Brahms symphnoy! H. C. Schmidt...