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...Sanders concert, to be broadcast locally on August 15 by WGBH-TV, will include works by Schuts, Byrd, Janequin, Barber and Bach. The Chorus, under the direction of Iva Dee Hiatt, associate Josquin, this concert will be sung on professor of Music and director of choral music at Smith College, will be accompanied by a chamber orchestra drawn from the Cambridge Civic Symphony...
...Miss Hiatt has planned the August 15 Sanders concert to display the range of vocal possibilities of a large, mixed chorus. Selections will range from the powerful double chorus and instrumental counterpoint of the Shutz and Bach, to the intimacy of Janequin madrigals by a group of chamber singers, to the modern complexity of Barber's Reincarnations...
This will be Miss Hiatt's second season as director of the Summer School Chorus. Under her direction the Smith College Glee Club has appeared, over the past 15 years, in Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, and Symphony Hall, and has toured England, Mexico and Italy. In Spoleto, Italy, the group was conducted by the composer Gian Carlo Menotti...
...said that during rehearsals conductor Iva Dee Hiatt (of Smith College) called forth this attitude by fervent references to her home institution and its undergraduates' most exuberant moments (an invitation from Yale, etc.). Whatever the merits of these tactics, there can be little doubt that Miss Hiatt is an effective conductor. Under her direction, the Chorus marched through the evening with a most un-amateur precision; attacks were sharp and clear, the tone clear and even...
...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...