Word: chorales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minute work for chorus, orchestra and six solo voices, in which Stravinsky utilizes for the first time all twelve tones of the tone-row technique that he recently adopted. Unrelievedly austere in mood, the work unfolds in a series of canons for two, three and four voices, choral chants, spare snatches of instrumental sound. Merely to cue the onstage forces properly was a tricky task, and Conductor Craft performed it brilliantly. Stabbing with a forefinger, lifting his shoulders in rhythmic shrugs, mouthing the Vulgate text in time with the singers, he shaped a performance of geometric clarity, suffused with...
...undergraduate secretary of Phi Beta Kappa and Radcliffe's highest-ranking Phillips Brooks House officer will aid the presidents of the Senior Class, Student Government Association, Board of Hall, the Commuters' Association, and the Choral Society in selecting 30 to 35 nominees, whose names will be read to the Senior Class at a meeting in the last week in February or the first week in March...
...University Choir sang its first Christmas service at Memorial Church this year, replacing the traditional performances of the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society. It was evident that the new Choirmaster, John Ferris, has expended great care and energy in drilling his chorus, which breaks a long-established Choir precedent by including Radcliffe members...
...balanced, although none of the carols was particularly striking. There was enough variety in the material to display the Choir's flexibility and fine tone, as well as its more-than-adequate intonation. Credit for the excellent balance must go to the director, whose attention to the niceties of choral singing, such as elegant diction, indicates his ability to maintain the high technical standards of the Harvard choral tradition. He favors rather dramatic changes of color and dynamics which may not please those accustomed to a simpler style, but which never suggest the theatrical...
Throughout the service the organ and harpsichord playing of Lois Pardue was exemplary. She was joined at the beginning of the program by two flutists in a lovely Bach sonata which benefited, as did the Choral singing, from the fine acoustics of Memorial Church