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...intermission. Though intricate and complex, it was by no means too much so for the Chorus. The piece, incidentally, has a long-standing connection with Harvard--Hindemith wrote it in 1947 for a symposium on musical criticism held here. When the work was performed, he himself conducted the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe choral Society. But it is unlikely that the singing then was a great deal better than last night...
...Clap Your Hands." The first piece was composed for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Then the chorus will sing the Apparebit Repentina Dies" by Paul Hindemith. It was composed in 1947 for a Symposium on Musical Criticism held at Harvard and was performed then by the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society with the composer conducting...
Miss Hiatt, conductor of the chorus, is associate professor of Music at Smith College. As Director of Choral Music at Smith she has conducted the Glee Club and the Choir in concerts given in many eastern cities. She founded the Smith College Chamber Singers, who have made six European tours. According to the Christian Science Monitor, "Miss Hiatt is a master of her craft and art...Under her supple hands the chorus sounded well-nigh flawless---secure, sonorous, and full of spirit...
...some incomprehensible alchemy, the Summer School Players have been fired by this play to produce by far their best performance of either this or last summer. The Players, in fact, seem to enjoy themselves extravagently; they crack their dreary jokes with every sign of glee; manipulate a formidable number of accents and dialects with surprising confidence; and don't even slow down in the middle of the dialogue's horrible stretches of Moorish waste. They are themselves as funny as their play is tiresome...
...Minister Maurice Couve de Murville demurred politely. The question, said Couve, is not "actuelle" (current). After all, he pointed out, it will be at least 18 more months before France's nuclear force is ready for action. Couve's cool reply could hardly conceal France's glee that Rusk had made the request. For years, De Gaulle and his military men had been seeking a bigger say in Western strategic planning. Now the U.S. itself seemed to be suggesting just that...