Word: chorales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clock in the Music Building. The orchestra, which includes every instrument used in symphonic orchestration, consists of 30 to 35 men, and in conducted by G. Wallace Woodworth '24, tutor and instructor in the division of music, assistant conductor of the Harvard Glee Club, and conductor of the Radcliffe Choral Society. Malcolm Holmes 4G is the assistant conductor of the orchestra...
...comparatively recent birth of interest and practice in instrumental and choral music in American institutions of secondary and higher education makes confident the prophecy that America soon will attain a musical majority. With the future in mind is it not high time to give constructive consideration to the question of supporting the arts with public funds? The number of wealthy citizens is limited and the demands of support of art in America will overwhelm their generous gestures...
...problem, decided the National Association of Organists when 200 delegates met in Manhattan last week for its 24th annual convention, is the increasing tendency of churches to employ "choral specialists" in place of organists. Said Rowland W. Dunham, director of the College of Music at the University of Colorado (Boulder, Col.): "We are all agreed that good, unaccompanied choral singing is beautiful, appropriate and desirable, but is that all that should be heard in church? Shall the organ be silent except for its necessary help on the hymns, a very short prelude and a totally useless postlude? I think...
Since the end of May, Cleveland had been canvassed for a native chorus and ballet. Rita De Leporte, the Metropolitan's première danseuse, whipped together an able troupe of 100. Giacomo Spadoni, assistant conductor and choral master of the Chicago Civic and Ravinia opera companies, selected 300 voices. For Aïda was provided a special Negro chorus led by a colored preacher. For Smetana's The Bartered Bride-"Czech national opera"-was provided the Cleveland United Czech Singing Society. A group of Welshmen were to sing specially in Die Meistersinger...
...addition to these and other local and college concerts which are being planned, the Club expects to undertake an extensive program in collaboration with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. As yet no announcement has been made by the Symphony Hall authorities regarding what choral and orchestral compositions will be performed by the combined organizations, which will be joined by the Radcliffe Choral Society...