Word: chorales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there were serious flaws in the way conductor Leo Collins used this magnificent choral instrument. Saturday's concert was just short of exciting because Collins' choice of tempos and articulation made the cantatas a little contrived, a little fussy...
...opening chorus of Bleib bei uns (BWV 6) featured a large number of choral trills. Although they demonstrated the chorus's virtuosity, the emphasis placed upon them distorted rather than heightened the expression of Bach's musical ideas. In the remainder of the cantata, Jane Struss' alto aria was lucid and delicate, if not overpowering, and Sorensen gracefully navigated the difficult tenor aria...
Miss Wagner, who was 21, majored in social relations. She wrote poetry and last year participated in an advanced seminar in creative writing conducted by Robert Lowell Jr. '37. She planned to travel to the Far East this summer with the Harvard-Radcliffe Choral Society...
Performing the Requiem was a carefully picked group of musicians. Adams recruited the chorus of sixty from the Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society, and the University Choir. The modest orchestra da chiesa contained some of Harvard's most respected undergraduate musicians. Of the four soloists, soprano Carlotta Wilsen conducts the Radcliffe Freshmen Chorus, tenor Henry Gibbons is the music tutor of Lowell House, and bass David Ripley is a freshman. Adams thus refuted the current contention that a major choral-orchestral work cannot be performed at Harvard without importing most of the necessary musicians from the outside...
Chairman, Farshman Class Committee; Chairman, Committee on the Freshman Year and Senior Sister Program; Co-Chairman, Combined Charities; North House Committee; Radcliffe Freshman Chorus and Choral Society; Undergraduate advisor...