Word: choraling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radcliffe Choral Society members named Mildred Blacklock '50, of Jamaica, New York, head of the group for 1949-50, present president Barbara Connolly '49 announced last night...
Suzanne learned to love medieval music as a child. Her famous father used to teach a choral group in lower Manhattan, take Suzanne along to substitute for missing singers. When she went to Germany in 1928 for more study, she visited family friend Physicist Albert Einstein, decided, after hearing Einstein's stepdaughter Margot play the lute, that that...
...things: instructor in 1942 and assistant professor in 1945, when he helped revise the curriculum of the Department. Emphasizing personal instruction, he is highly praised by his students for his interest and teaching ability. He now hopes for a General Education course which would stress student participation in music. Choral works from important periods would be sung by members of the course: Plainsong, Ars Nova, the Renaissance, Bach, Beethoven, and Stravinsky. In this way, the students would "get inside the music." Lectures would relate the compositions to the artistic philosophy of the times. Fine considers a similar course...
...thinks teaching should be mixed with composition, and he has been writing music steadily since he composed the score for a Dunster House musical not long after his return from Paris. He has done a good deal of choral composition, and his works include the Alice in Wonderland Suite and The Choral 'New Yorker.' Koussevitzky has heaped praise on his Toccata Concertante. It has had several performances this year by the Boston Symphony and was played under the composer's direction at Sanders Theater this winter. His new Partita for Woodwind Quintet was performed last month at M.I.T...
Dormitories and clubs will handle booths and projects this year. Already signed up for bazaar exhibits are the Choral Society, the Athletic Association the Outing Club, Briggs Hall, Everett House, and the staff of the yearbook, Forty and Nine...