Word: chorales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other student organizations were hesitant about accepting, or explicitly rejecting, proposals for full Radcliffe membership. The Harvard Glee Club announced that musical scores required that it remain separate from the Radcliffe Choral Society, although the groups give joint concerts...
Sickness delayed the arrival of the Studentischer Madrigal-choir of Munster University in West Germany, whose Volkswagen caravan drove into the Yard last night. Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society members stood in the rain for several hours waiting to greet the 52 students and their director, Frau Herma Reuter. The group will present a concert of Bach, Brahms, and Bruckner tonight at 8:30 in Paine Hall...
...year pension (about $400) so that he could devote all his time to music. He settled down with his wife in a white clapboard house at Lake Tuusula, where they raised five daughters. By the early 1920s, he had turned out 13 tone poems, seven symphonies, countless songs and choral works. He attempted an opera with no success ("I like opera very much, but opera does not like me"). His imagination seemed to flag. He published his last works in 1929, retired to Lake Tuusula as one of the venerated elder statesmen of symphonic music...
...opening "Hail, bright Cecilia," by Purcell, had the proper majesty, though there was a bit of trouble with a few of the tricky entrances. Brahms' brooding and richly colored Song of the Fates fared well, and again showed that Brahms has no superior in the handling of the choral medium...
...group ended with a captivating performance of Monteverdi's Vago Augelletto. The work requires besides a chorus six vocal soloists, two solo violins and basso continuo (here executed by 'cello, bassoon and harpsichord). This piece of shifting moods makes use of countless different combinations of the solo, choral and instrumental forces...