Word: chorales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once a year about this time, the Radcliffe Choral Society and the Radcliffe Dance Group get together to produce one of the few Cambridge musical bargains having a universal appeal. Although the quality of the two groups varies from year to year, their joint free-of-charge concert at Sanders Theatre is an event of note even on the off-years...
Thursday night was the first time Elliot Forbes has appeared with the Choral Society. Under his direction, the group soared through a concert of Bach, Gluck, Palestrina, and Polenc, the latter's "Litanies A La Vierge Noire" providing a peak of sheer emotion in the vocal section of the program...
Twice he directed the National Conservatory and there founded Mexico's major choral institution...
Life & Love. Although he is neither a trained musician nor an anthropologist, Lomax has arrived at some general conclusions. For example, people in remote (often Northern) parts of continental European countries tend to "take life and love easy"; they sing in choral groups with open throats, often using frankly sexual words and lyrics. As he moved to less remote areas, Lomax found increasing "frustration and melancholy," accompanied by a nasal, constricted-throat, high-pitched style of singing that comes originally from the Orient...
After an anthem sung by the Choral Society, Mrs. Wilma A. Kerby-Miller, Dean of Instruction, extended the greetings of the administration to the assembled student body, and especially to the 313 members of the Class of 1962, Radcliffe's largest freshman class ever. Three students have also been admitted as sophomores in Radcliffe's first year of the advanced standing program...