Word: chorales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chorus, recruited from the University Glee club as well as from the Radcliffe Choral Society, presented a long list of choruses for the enthusiastic audience, giving to the swinging rhythms and agitated choral comments a delicate interpretation par excellence. In clearness of enunciation, which is so important for the true enjoyment of the Gilbertian witticisms, and in rapid shading of tone and prompt assertive entrances so inherent in the music, the chorus did outstandingly well. Singing with enthusiasm which nevertheless was confined to tonal and not physical motions, the chorus interpreted the ringing operettas with much success, while Dr. Davison...
...preparing the lecture on the famous works of Gilbert and Sullivan Dr. Davison has arranged many excerpts from the operettas for a small chorus to sing, and these examples of the music under discussion will be sung by a picked chorus recruited from the members of the Radcliffe Choral Society and of the University Glee Club. There will also be slides to illustrate the lecture. Tickets priced at $1.50, $1.00, and $.50 may be had at Almee Brothers...
...Gilbert and Sullivan operettas is scheduled to be given in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building next Thursday evening at 8.15 o'clock, the proceeds to be given to the MacDowell Memorial Colony. The lecture will be given by A. T. Davison '05, Professor of Choral Music and leader of the Harvard Glee Club. A chorus made up of members of the Radcliffe Choral Society and the Glee Club is to illustrate the address...
...Boston Orchestra under the direction of Dr. Koussevitzky. The performances of several works by Bach have been given in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Boston Orchestra and marked the climax of the symphony season. The Orchestra engaged the Glee Club and the Choral Society to share the burden of the choral work with the Bach Cantata Club. The Harvard and Radcliffe organizations furnished a chorus of nearly 300 voices. The singers were prepared by Dr. A.T. Davison '06 and G.W. Woodworth...
This probably will be the last appearance of the Glee Club in conjunction with the Boston Orchestra this season. There is, however, a possibility that there will be a repetition of "Ode", a choral and orchestral setting by E.B. Hill '94 of a poem written by Robert Hillyer '17 commemorating the founding of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...