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...Harvard University Glee Club, 61 members strong, stormed into India yesterday in its whirlwind concert tour of the Far East. The choral group sings tonight and tomorrow at the New Empire Theater in Calcutta, and then moves on to Madras, Delhi, and Bombay before flying to Greece on Aug. 13. The tour winds...
Bizet's lushly orchestrated score with its mass choral effects still showed the clear influences of Verdi, Meyerbeer and-particularly-Gounod, whom Bizet considered his master (one 12-bar passage is note-for-note from Gounod's Faust). But under the expert leadership of Conductor Laszlo Halasz, and with a fine lead performance from Tenor Giuseppe Campora, the opera emerged at least in parts as the melodic masterpiece that the French have come to regard it (the Paris Opera-Comique has it in its regular repertory, as does La Scala). Outstanding were the fine tenor aria...
...admirable and elegant music. Part of this, admittedly, can't be their fault, for the music and the offensive patter of what must be bongo drums are all hollowly issuing from a tape somewhere in the ceiling; it would throw anyone off. The only remotely appealing sight during the choral odes is Gustav Solomons' dancing, which is interesting but seems entirely out of place...
Triteness and cliches plague modern choral music--patriotic pieces especially--and Session's Turn, O Libertad in particular. Complex accompaniment and dissonance cannot hide its dullness and essentially barber-shop harmonies. Such was not so with Elliot Forbes's madrigal Music whose harmonies seemed amazingly fresh and lacking in cliches. The madrigal form, Emerson's text and a modern spirit, surprisingly, did not conflict. John Crawford's two madrigals have a complete texture and greater richness; both had the indispensable virtue of good musical taste...
...when it sang Tallis's Lamentations of Jeremiah, almost seemed to dim the lights, as is the tradition when the text is sung in Holy Week Matins. Nonetheless, its complex fabric was not very apparent. In Schutz' 84th Psalm it displayed excellent control of its vigor and contrasts. The Choral Society contributed six delightfully cool and sweet songs by Schumann, the chorus maintaining an airy tone and a group of soloists spun an intricate, but occasionally ill-balanced, texture. Three choruses of Haydn ended the concert on a tender, almost sentimental note. They were, indeed, typical of the evening: sometimes...