Word: chorused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the girls from Hillhouse High School so nearby, you'd hardly expect that a mere musical comedy--even if it did have a 24-girl chorus line, and even if the girls' average age was 17 1/2--would catch the well-satisfied fancy of students from Yale University. It did, though. A group of them were waiting in the alley by the stage door, hoping that someone would open the door from the inside so that they could sneak in. Down in the dressing room area there was another cluster of Yalies--ones who had penetrated the first obstacle...
...Song, the Harvard Band swung through a selection of spirited melodies, well matching the energetic performance of Snake Oil. To attempt a criticism of last night's concert would be like kicking holes in the Band's new drum. Each tune was delivered with that punch which stirs a chorus of accompanying shoe taps...
...Wallace Woodworth '24 succeeded Davison as conductor of the chorus as he was later to succeed him as James Edward Ditson Professor of Music. But under the present conductor of the Boston Symphony, Charles Munch, the Glee Club and choral society will never again perform pieces in the same grandiose manner to which they became accustomed under Koussevitzky. The change came in 1950, shortly before they were to assist the BSO in a Pension Fund performance of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis...
...size of the chorus was about 350- average for Koussevitzky. But Munch was nervous at the first joint rehearsal with the orchestra. Although the session went as well as any joint rehearsal Koussevitzky had held, Munch was for from satisfied. He liked to feel he had everything under control before a concert, rather than have to make the performance a success through sheer aplomb and bravado...
...concert was not overly successful. Ever since, Munch has limited the size of the chorus to a comfortable, controllable 150 members. He has used such a chorus much more frequently, however, than Koussevitzky ever used the larger group. Eleven joint concerts have been scheduled for this year and ten were given last year...