Word: chorales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wind Ensemble originally developed as a separate group, but the Band management has now taken the responsibility for it. The Ensemble began its season on November 2 in a joint concert with the Radclifle Choral Society, and its next engagement is on December...
...memorial concert of Brahms's Ein Deutsches Requiem with the Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society. University Chorus, and Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, all groups that G. Wallace Woodworth had conducted, was splendid. The only student concert which compares with it was the University Chorus's performance last Easter of Bach's St. John Passion. The orchestra played with unprecedented unanimity, tone, and intonation; the choruses especially Mr. Ferris's Memorial Church choir, sang? with ?ear diction, precise ensemble and balance, and spiritual sympathy. But conductor James Yannatos deserves special praise for a manly, unostentatious, dramatically well-proportioned, moving yet suitably chaste...
...number on the program, Kagami-Jishi (The Mirror Lion Dance), in which he plays a shy flower-loving maiden who turns into the king of beasts. (All female roles are played by men in Kabuki theater.) The three-stringed twang of the samisen haunts the entire evening like a choral book of lamentations...
...social life in the popular sense of the world, dating a great deal. discussing boys and other girls more than their fellow Cliffies, and participating gaily in drama. Others. however, participate seriously in administrative organizations such as Radcliffe and dormitory government, in service organizations (like their mothers) and in choral societies. Where rules are to be tended, this group tends them. Briggs, the strong hold of the peach flavor, was the most vehement supporter of an orderly and extensive system of sign-outs when the system was debated a few years...
Woody believed, too, in more than the importance of teaching people how to listen. He knew tat amateurs could be taught to make music--and make music well--through singing. As conductor of the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society for more than tree decades, e elicited a level of performance that made these institutions world-renowned--and he did this without any condescension to singers of concessions to difficulty. Despite the fact that he had, as a Harvard undergraduate, been turned down by the Glee Club for having a poor voice, he became the greatest choral conductor...