Word: chorales
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Among the worse casualties are those groups specific to Radcliffe. What will happen to RUS (Radcliffe Union of Students)? Perhaps it will become HUS and join a slimmer HUC (Harvard Undergraduate Council), or perhaps RUS will cease to exist at all. Quite possibly the singers of Radcliffe Choral Society (RCS) may one day become confused with the technologists in the Harvard Computer Society (HCS). The Radcliffe Pitches will also suffer a deep identity crisis...
Several students sit on the floor, round black cushions arranged in a semi-circle as they meditate in perfect silence for a half-hour in the Adams House Senior Common Room. While sounds of rehearsing choral groups waft up and into the calm room, each treasures the serene weekly moment of peace and semi-quiet...
...music drew an enthusiastic crowd. As the audience filtered out of the Collegium Musicum and Radcliffe Choral Society concert in Sanders Theatre, the strains of Madonna, Chumbawumba and Celine Dion pounded in Annenberg. The music was great and the dancing was fast, a very un-Harvard party...
...more tranquil work, Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe Suite No. 2, closed the concert. Unfortunately, various events so depleted the ranks of available singers that the choral component of Ravel's score remained unsung. Fortunately, the lack was hardly noticed in the grandeur of the orchestra's performance. The opening rills for wind and harp, although punctuated by two unmerciful squeaks, created a setting of pastoral calm. Dense, lush orchestration frequently dissolved into the quickness and light of lighter sections; this is clearly recognizable as music for the ballet. Clear articulation was a hallmark of the performance of this epic...
...musician and actor that I could have been is gone. Instead, years of service as a local community choral singer, choral director, organist and pianist have gone a long way toward making up for the damage that was done during my years at Harvard...