Word: concertant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young educational television station WGBH turned over its weekly program "Performance" on Monday evening to members of the Harvard Summer School Chorus for the second time. The resulting 50-minute concert, again under the expert leadership of Harold Schmidt, proved highly enjoyable if not quite up to the level of last summer's show. The shortcomings were due to two factors: Schmidt's essayal of more difficult music, and a less effective use of the television cameras...
...Rules for Behavior (1955). Effectively written, it shows much the same style and spirit as Irving Fine's Alice in Wonderland music. Also of recent vintage was "The Promise of Living" from Copland's opera The Tender Land. This warm work needs a slightly larger body of singers. The concert ended with Vaughan William's hearty Let All the World in Every Corner Sing, which wanted only a more robust accompaniment...
Producer-director Ted Hoffmann's handling of the cameras was disappointing, compared with Ray Wilding-White's fine job last summer. We got only frontal views of portions of the chorus or rear views of Schmidt almost exclusively. Now this is precisely what we can see in any concert hall. What TV alone can do (and should have done) is to include plenty of side-view shots of the conductor, especially close-ups. Few things are more fascinating to watch than the face of a top-notch conductor at work...
...groups lined up in traditional V-formations, took turns tooting their bulge-cheeked way through an intricate variety of fanfares. It was a glorious afternoon for the horn players but a somewhat puzzling one for the modern audience. When they began wandering aimlessly across the chateau grounds as the concert went on, nobody could think of a fanfare to recall them to their seats...
Authentic Renaissance and Baroque instruments will perform the works of these composers. Performers for the concert are Daniel Heartz, harpsichord and Renaissance lute; Phyllis Olson, tenor and bass viola da gamba; and Howard Brown '51, cross flute and recorders...