Word: chorales
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...view of the celebration, ranging from a Spanish-American procession in San Diego to a Harlem choral performance...
Hoorah for the Red, White and Blue! (Golden). A masculine. 14-song choral salute to flag and country (The Caissons Go Rolling Along, The Halls of Montezuma) that goes off with a rousing, old-fashioned Fourth of July bang...
Afternoon performances are notoriously ragged--especially when it rains--and Sanders Theatre certainly isn't the ideal place for a large concert, anyway. I know this, and the above should serve as an apology to the members of the Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society, and Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, whose collective Christmas Concert I attended yesterday afternoon, instead of yesterday evening. But one expects (no doubt quite unreasonably) that any performance of a major work by the top musicians of Harvard will generate a certain amount of excitement; and yesterday's (which didn't) was even at best a disappointment...
Bach's Magnificat in D, for Tovey, his "most comprehensively representative work," has proved itself an arduous undertaking for almost every choral group. Bach himself conceived the Song of the Virgin as an intricately subtle and profoundly joyous cantata, and he wrote for it instrumental parts that are as demanding as they are various and voice parts that combine a considerable amount of colortura with an unusually high tessitura. Under Elliot Forbe's direction, most of the intricacies were blurred, and the joy appeared in frequent flashes...
Only towards the end did the quality of the performance improve. The chorus, which had had little success in its earlier ventures, demonstrated in the terzett Suscepit Israel that it is still the master of choral singing. The remaining choruses were capably handled, but their effectiveness only served to emphasize the failings of the first part. Mr. Forbes and his group have given us much better music before...