Word: churches
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...University Choir sang its first Christmas service at Memorial Church this year, replacing the traditional performances of the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society. It was evident that the new Choirmaster, John Ferris, has expended great care and energy in drilling his chorus, which breaks a long-established Choir precedent by including Radcliffe members...
Throughout the service the organ and harpsichord playing of Lois Pardue was exemplary. She was joined at the beginning of the program by two flutists in a lovely Bach sonata which benefited, as did the Choral singing, from the fine acoustics of Memorial Church...
...University Choir will present the annual Christmas carol service tonight and tomorrow evening at 8:15 p.m. and tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 p.m. in Memorial Church...
...Territory of Conscience. In far-off Peredelkino, in his fir-and birch-engirdled, two-story dacha 15 miles southwest of Moscow, Boris Pasternak was mute but not inglorious. Against the sky he could see silhouetted the blue, oniontop cupolas of the village Orthodox Church, symbol of the Christian faith that enables his hero, Dr. Yurii Zhivago, to endure the torment, humiliations, sins and tragedy of war and revolution. On the walls of his study glow the illustrations that his artist-father drew for Resurrection by the great Tolstoy, whom Boris Pasternak has called "the territory of conscience." On that territory...
Having been deprived this year of the traditional services of Christmas music by the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society in Memorial Church, the faithful trooped over to Sanders last Friday evening to hear the same forces, joined by the Bach Society Orchestra, offer season's greetings to the Cambridge community. Despite the changed locale and program, the atmosphere, which makes these concerts an annual success, was unchanged; and if the performances were not classically ideal, the large audience seemed, nevertheless, very well satisfied...