Word: chorales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chorus, under the leadership of Harold C. Schmidt '32, Director of Choral Music and professor of Music at Stanford University, will have its organizational meeting tomorrow from 7 to 8 p.m. in Room 11, Sever Hall. Rehearsals will take only three hours a week in preparation for the annual choral concert to be given in Sanders Theatre on August 13. The Chorus may also apear on television, as in previous summers...
Samuel Barber, U.S. composer of choral music and opera....................... Mus.D...
Choice of the group for "worst featured artist" was the Harvard Glee Club-Radcliffe Choral Society, for its performance of the Bach St. Matthew Passion...
Although the rest of the Requiem never regains the magnificence of this opening movement, there are other high points, including the tender "Sing with the Spirit," the moving "Walk as Children of Light," and the virtuosic "Sing unto Him." Throughout the piece, Thompson demonstrates his absolute command of the choral idiom, and ability to produce a variety of effects without lapsing into mere showiness. His cadences perhaps lean too heavily on the received value of a rich pianissimo close, but, for the most part he does not substitute sound effects for more serious and difficult musical tasks, but uses...
Friday night's performance by the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society, led by Elliot Forbes, surmounted the considerable technical difficulties of the work, but threatened to break upon the Scylla of a capella singing, intonation. The intra-chorus work was satisfactory, with the exception of several bewildering opening bars of various sections; but as each part went on, the chorus, depressed by a rather cowardly soprano section, sank lower and lower, and at the end of the second movement was grovelling around a third lower than was written, producing the weird impression of a record being played...