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There is something truly magical about holiday choral music done well, and the Holden Choirs' concert last Saturday in Sanders was no exception. The Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society and Collegium Musicum joined forces to offer a beautiful and often brilliant, if surprisingly short, Christmas concert dedicated to music from the British Isles. The three groups performed separately first, followed by a joint Glee Club/RCS performance of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Mass in G Minor and concluding with all three groups singing Vaughan Williams' "God Bless the Master." Between each section, conductors Jameson Marvin and Constance DeFotis invited...
...Radcliffe Choral Society and the Harvard Glee Club joined for the Vaughan Williams Mass. The "Kyrie" initially sounded thin and tentative, lacking in emotion or conviction. However, the combined choirs suddenly burst out in their full glory in the "Gloria," with the rich, warm sound that distinguishes the Holden choirs. Likewise, the "Agnus Dei" was developed beautifully both melodically and harmonically. It was particularly impressive that the two groups, which do not rehearse together on a regular basis, were able to blend so well. In the same vein, it is a tribute to the excellence of both groups that...
...finale, all three Holden choirs joined to sing the traditional English carol "God Bless the Master", arranged by Vaughan Williams. This piece exudes a cheery, positively glowing holiday spirit as it successively blesses different members of the household, ending with: "The Lord increase you day by day, and send you more and more." Unfortunately, many of the singers had their noses buried in their music throughout the performance, which somewhat detracted from the message. Nonetheless, the warmth with which it was sung added to the general feeling of joy among the singers, reached out to the listeners. And at last...
Young also describes a ghost that frequents Holden Chapel every year "around the first snowstorm." Young recalls that "her name is Pickham--a woman who was riding with her fiance in a sleigh through the Square when their horse slipped on the ice and their sleigh flipped over. Her fiance broke his neck and died in her arms. He was buried in the basement of Christ Church, but when she returned to visit the grave, the body had been dug up and stolen. In those days, if often happened that internists would dig up bodies to dissect. The young lady...
...Three from his post-Navy wanderings: The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954) is a gritty war-and-conscience Korean War flick with cast full of pros: William Holden and a typically glittering Grace Kelly with Frederic March and Mickey Rooney thrown...