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Robert A. Hutchinson '71, manager of the Harvard Glee Club, said he couldn't ask the Radcliffe Choral Society to house the Yale women without inviting them to join the concert, adding, "We would rather sing alone than sing with the Radcliffe Choral Society...
Yesterday's program would have staggered a major symphony, but the HRO and the University Choir took it on without flinching. The Haydn Paukenmesse, the Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms, and the lovely little Schutz choral piece, Lobe den Herren, Meine Seele are all challenging pieces. It is amazing, not that the players handled them so well, but that they could handle them...
...main Congo Room. The nine girls in its 18-member troupe were, of course, not topless or even braless, but all in shimmering red and white. Their show was 90 minutes of All-Americana, professionally rendered, "saluting what's good and right in America." They hymned what Choral Director Johnny Mann called "purty stuff, sentimental stuff and nostalgia," including Roaring Twenties tunes, a historical recitative, an armed-forces medley, and (two black members of the company notwithstanding) Dixie...
Concerts at the United Nations often include Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, which ends with the choral affirmation of Schiller's Ode to Joy: "All mankind shall be brothers . . ." The U.N. was founded 25 years ago on that dream. Disillusionment over its failure to achieve this goal has become a permanent feeling, like a chronic toothache...
...Barbirolli's career was long, and certainly distinguished. Educated at the Royal Academy of Music, he was a successful cellist while scarcely out of his teens. In his early twenties, he began his conducting career, first as a choral conductor, then as a conductor with the British National Opera. It was here that his conducting style was shaped. For years, he concentrated on Italian opera, almost to the exclusion of every form of music, and developed his free-wheeling, easy, unquestionably romantic form of conducting. After some years with the British National Opera, and later the Scottish Symphony, came...