Word: chorales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Evening Post which spends much of its editorial time in the field of college activity came out recently with a denunciation of the "highbrow" drift which had swept away the old college Glee Club. Says the Post. "College boys are not professional singers. The Mendelssohn and other choral societies meet a fine public need. But the undergraduate should not be called upon to live up to their standards of excellence. The under-graduate should express and control his own music just as he should express and control his own football...
...Glee Clubs have no interest in anything more intricate musically than "Men of Dartmouth." Whether the Post is right or wrong in this assumption, and we believe it wrong, the statement that college singers should not be expected to live up to the standards of excellence of the average choral society calls forth a protest...
...Serge Koussevitzky, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, was present at a joint rehearsal of the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society in Sever Hall last night. This is the first time Dr. Koussevitzky has appeared to hear the Glee Club and the Choral Society go over the Bach Mass in B Minor, which they will sing in Symphony Hall in Boston during the Bach Festival, under his leadership...
...program will be of additional interest to all as selected numbers will be illustrated by a special chorus composed of members of the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society. Eleven operettas will be sung in part to illustrate the points of Dr. Davison's address in order to make the lecture more clear and informative...
...Club schedule for the immediate future includes a concert at Milton on the evening of Friday. February 20. On Tuesday afternoon and evening. February 24, the Club will join with the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, in the Bach Festival. Bach's "Mass in B. Minor" will be sung. The following Thursday the three musical groups will render the composer's "Magnificat" followed by the "Mass" on Sunday, March...