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...takes extraordinary excellence to win a seven and a half minute ovation from even the most generous of concert audiences. Director Iva Dee Hiatt and the Harvard Summer School Chorus were rewarded with just such applause last night at their annual concert in Sanders Theatre...
...established chorus, two weeks of rehearsal on a major composition such as the Requiem would be barely sufficient. For director Iva Dee Hiatt and the 114 members of the Summer School Chorus, accepting such an assignment was a courageous...
...addition to the prime handicap of time limitation, the summer school chorus had to overcome many other difficulties. Singing in an open shed required powerful voices and assurance of one's own part. To achieve this, Miss Hiatt asked the members to practice special breathing methods and mild calisthenics. The chorus also practiced singing while sitting in the audience section of Paine Hall. This simulated the accoustics of the Tanglewood shed, where sound is only projected outwards, making it almost impossible for the different sections of the chorus to hear each other. Some accoustical problems, however, could not be anticipated...
Despite the sacrifices required by the daily four hour practice sessions, members of the chorus seemed satisfied with the heavy expenditure of time. They reported that Miss Hiatt "conveyed a profound sense of the music" to the group. After hearing the chorus Conductor Leinsdorf declared Hiatt was a "miracle worker...
...Miss Hiatt likes her groups to sing music from all periods, but thinks that contemporary music is a special test of a chorus' excellence: "This century's music is an indication of our cultural validity, and I want to deal with only that music which is vital...