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...second step of the selection process, Alfandre said, the choral societies will enlist the aid of a panel of "music luminaries"--heads of music departments at other universities, music critics, and professional conductors--to choose five candidates by mid-December...
...student search committee began the preliminary selection of a new conductor for two of the University's three choral groups last night by narrowing a field of nearly 140 applicants to 20, the manager of the Radcliffe Choral Society (RCS) said yesterday...
...concert Saturday the Bach Society Orchestra convincingly demonstrated that it is not one of those. To open the 1977-78 season, Conductor Christopher Wilkins led the ensemble through an eclectic blend of periods and styles: a Baroque suite, a nineteenth-century overture and concerto, and a minor twentieth-century choral masterpiece...
...final work, Ralph Vaughan Williams's "Serenade to Music," the Bach Society was joined by the Harvard University Choir. Written to a Shakespeare text in 1938, the serenade fortunately has become a gem of the choral repertoire, a consummately felicitous welding of poetry and music. The Bach Society's performance was truly gorgeous--all moonlight and velvet shadow. The chorus blended into a cool wave of sound, plumbing the music's dreamy depths without sacrificing a sparkling diction. The soloists, particularly soprano Ellen Burkhardt, were uniformly fine. The orchestra matched them in ethereal luster as a glossy violin solo...
Radcliffe Choral Society...