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...Harvard Glee Club, with the Freshman Glee Club, Truman Bullard, conductor, will present a Yard concert tonight at 7:00 p.m. on the steps of Widener...
...Handel oratorio is almost too much fun; it's just so easy to bellow out that "good old Handel," the louder the better, and let artistry go hang. It takes work to make a concert performance of Handel significantly more than an exercise in sight-reading. The Glee Club, Choral Society, and Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra supplied the necessary work last night. They made things "happen" in Israel in Egypt; conductor Elliot Forbes took good advantage of the vocal discipline which the choruses maintained...
...soloists carried off the few solos in the oratorio excellently. The women, Junetta Jones and Janet Winburn, sopranos, and Betty Lou Austin, alto, had strong, vibrant voices. The men, all from the Glee Club, equalled them: Robert McKelvey, Clayne Robison, basses, made "The Lord is a Man of War" very convincing; Ivor Francis, tenor, was weak in his upper register, but contributed fluid recitatives and good airs. The orchestra was fine but not overly distinguished...
...that the oratorio has been done better, notably by Paul Callaway at the Washington Cathedral. A sniveling thing to do, perhaps, but it is an important qualification. The Choral Society, for one thing, was too frail when its parts were exposed. Yet what in some ways limited the Glee Club's performance helped in others: at times its resonant sound became dull--particularly in the opening narrative--but elsewhere created awesome solidity. Yet, because the oratorio's greatest asset is its power and not its drama, the Glee Club's distinctive sound was quite in place...
...etry, but it's what the raven quoth. And why not? After all, this is just a sappy little parody of a horror picture cutely calculated to make the children scream with terror while their parents scream with glee. The raven, see, isn't really a raven at all. It's Peter Lorre. The poor chap has been enchanted by Boris Karloff, a wicked wizard who lives in a slimy green castle-that one over there on the left side of the screen. The one on the right side of the screen belongs to Hero Price...