Word: chorused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Probably no college group had ever sung with a professional symphony orchestra before that first concert, given April 1, 1917, but since then it has become almost commonplace, not only for the Harvard-Radcliffe chorus, but for other college singing groups as well. No other chorus, however, can match the long, continuous association between the Glee Club and Choral society and the Boston symphony. Tomorrow night's performance of Berlioz' Damnation of Faust in Carnegie Hall will be the 100th joint concert by the chorus and orchestra in a series dating back to that first concert...
...reality an audition for Muck. "When he did come to hear us, we couldn't have him just sitting on the stage. There was a great legend surrounding the man-even members of his own orchestra were terrified of the man, he recalls. But the quality of the chorus impressed Muck just as it has such later BSO conductors as Pierre Monteux, serge Koussevitzky, and Charles Munch. the precedent once established in the 1917 concert, Davison's singers never again found it so difficult to get engagements with...
Rossini: L'ltaliana in Algeri (Giulletta Simionato, Cesare Valletti; La Scala Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini; Angel, 2 LPs). A gay, foolish romp through romantic North Africa, featuring a harem, a love-bored bey and a high-spirited Italian girl. Hardly an ounce of musical passion, but plenty of pretty coloratura parts and some elegant singing by the principals...
King Gama's mustachioed sons, Jonathan Levy, Peter Duren, and Don McIntyre, made the most of choice roles. Their delightful hamminess was emulated by a well-trained chorus which obviously enjoyed Princess Ida. So will weekend audiences...
Last summer two dozen U.S. evangelists descended on the country in an invasion planned to the last poster by ex-Propagandist Muto. Teaming up with Japanese pastors and three marimbas, an organ, harp, chorus, a public-address system and a portable stage, they had encouraging results for such a stubbornly non-Christian country: an estimated 88,520 people reached in 140 public services, and 45 baptized, with another 89 being prepared for baptism...