Word: concerting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Friday's annual concert of the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society was a most ambitious program, worthy of the best professional choruses. It showed once again,--though proof is no longer needed--that these two groups, under the intelligent and stimulating direction of G. Wallace Woodworth, are leaders in American collegiate singing...
...Spurned, in concert with Britain and France, a Soviet proposal for a joint Big Four policy in the Mideast. Highlights of the Russian proposal, put forward last month to bring "peace and security" to the area: withdrawal of all foreign troops and liquidation of foreign bases, a ban on arms shipments, agreement by the "great powers," i.e., the West, to renounce "all attempts to involve these countries in military blocs." Among the reasons for the U.S. rejection: if the Middle East states feel themselves threatened, they have every right to join "with other nations in legitimate collective-security arrangements...
Randall Thompson, '20, will receive the Harvard Glee Club Medal at the Club's annual concert with the Radcliffe Choral Society on March 22, in Sanders Theater...
Bertram Baldwin's Quartet was very promising. Although there was some mixing of styles during the piece, it had fine strong moments that indicated a real talent. The performances in this concert were of high caliber; Soprano Sarah Jane Smith and Cellist Lawrence Lesser were especially outstanding...
...Sunday night Leverett House commemorated its 25th Anniversary with a beguiling program of widely assorted music. The first half of the concert was played by the Harvard Brass Choir, which made a noble attempt at the Contrapunctus One from Bach's Art of the Fugue, and delighted the audience with some Brass music of Johann Pezel, a 17th Century German Town Musician. The Leverett House Glee Club then joined the Brass for a Lied and Chorale by Mendelssohn. The Lied turned out to have the tune of "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" set to a German text praising Gutenberg...