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...Radcliffe Choral Society existed until four years ago, when it became part of the Collegium Musicum. The Choral Society began to revive when F. John Adams '66, conductor of the Collegium, started to organize an all-female chorus for a Thanksgiving Boston Symphony Orchestra show...
...Anglican choral song Jerusalem. Also rising on the charts is an LP by a Dutch group called Focus that sounds at times like a combo of English madrigalists. In Detroit this week, English Rock Star Rick Wakeman begins a month-long U.S. tour featuring some unusual sidemen: Classical Conductor David Measham and a 60-member orchestra and choir...
...much of a head start as they can manage if he cares to make a despairing run for his life. It is an offer he cannot refuse in the circumstances. Ventura's run-which includes trying to capture a Russian spy (who is also a well-known symphonic conductor), whom the fugitive needs as bait for a deal with his former masters-forms the substance of a movie that is at once deft and thoughtprovoking...
...Minor comprises the 92-year-old maestro's 1973 taping at Walthamstow Town Hall outside London with the New Philharmonia and a reissue of the same symphony recorded in 1927 when he led the Philadelphia Orchestra. Both readings are dramatic, reflecting the vigorous personality of the conductor. The new recording differs chiefly in tempo. Even with two repeats omitted in the Scherzo movement, the symphony runs some 5½ minutes longer, with a tediously extended line in the Largo. The last movement brims with robust cheer...
...Serge Koussevitzky Centennial Day at Tanglewood in Lenox, Mass., and the Boston Symphony Orchestra staged a celebration in honor of its late great conductor. Participants included Koussevitzky's most famous pupil, Leonard Bernstein, 55, who on doctors' orders conducted only two programs. Just three weeks before Lenny had been hospitalized in Bridgeport, Conn., suffering from a shortness of breath; no diagnosis of his illness has been made public. One music lover who stopped by at Tanglewood to give him a big hug: Joan Kennedy, recently returned from a rest and therapy session at Connecticut's Silver Hill...