Word: choraling
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...active repertory as the better-known operatic version of the story that Christoph Gluck wrote 30 years earlier. Apparently influenced by his exposure to England's oratorio tradition, Haydn composed Orfeo for a chorus and orchestra much larger than he had previously used. The heavy dose of choral music and the numerous arias in sona ta form make much of the opera sound like an oratorio. The chorus, for example, joins in a love duet with Sutherland and Gedda in the early scenes, sings a lament for the dead Euridice, and in the third act consoles Orfeo with four...
...Harvard Glee Club will give the second in its annual series of year concerts at 7 p.m. tonight on the steps of Widener Library. The Radcliffe Choral Society will join the Glee Club for tonight's presentation of Bach-and-Bartols...
...predictions Hathaway's Fidelio should have been a failure. That it was certainly not. Using the Bach Society Orchestra as a base, he managed to assemble many of the best instrumentalists at Harvard; for his chorus he drew heavily from the Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society. It is a tribute to his musicians' intelligence and ability to sightread, and to his own assiduity and seriousness as a conductor, that they got through the music as well as they...
John Lithgow's staging was restrained (for Lithgow) and stylized. His blocking moved well, and the choreography had moments of brilliance without upstaging the music. The panic preceding Cherubino's leap from the window, the third act choral dance, and the intricate comings and goings of the last scene were the best...
...Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society are like latterday minstrels; they perform all over the world but only a few times a year in Cambridge. Perhaps this is why last Friday's concert at Sanders sounded a little hasty, like a glorified after thought. The program was a long and challenging collection of renaissance, baroque, and contemporary music, and the performance showed an excellent grasp of several styles of 20th century music. But the first half of the program, devoted to early music, was less successful, in part because of the simple unwieldiness of such a large chorus...