Word: messiahs
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...Celia, who was more gifted, saved her life by losing it. In finding saints at cocktail parties Eliot is perfectly in line with primitive Christianity which teaches that the truly good man will not be recognized by any visible piety. Christ's own unorthodoxy made him as unlikely a Messiah as Harcourt-Reilly is an angel...
...disappointed and alarmed by the review of The Messiah in Monday's CRIMSON. Whatever may be the merits of his musical objections. Mr. Litfield renders a severe disservice to the cause of student concert productions here. He complains that"... the Pierian Sodality was fooled into thinking that a Messiah performance could be slapped together in little rehearsal time." The orchestra held nine rehearsals, hired the best available choral conductor, and treated us to the best solo quartet we've heard in Sanders. They went to the trouble of assembling a chorus. to accuse these students of neglect after so much...
...substitute for perfection, according to your reviewer. By simplest extension, this principle could be invoked against not only amateur orchestras, but also amateur magazines, amateur radio stations, and amateur newspapers. We don't believe in Mr. Litfield's principle. We do believe that all concerned with the Messiah presentation deserve a good deal of praise for their efforts, and more than a little for their artistic achievement. Paul E. Conden '55 Kenneth A. Jlmenez '54 Robert M. McColley...
...chorus will sing Christmas carols from different lands, and Handel's "Messiah." "Vent Emmanuel" and "Adeste Fideles" with be sung by the Congregation...
Under Mr. Patterson the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra combined spirit and inaccuracy to sound like a typical group of musical amateurs. The strings often played out of tune in both the Messiah and Corelli's Christmas Concerto. Vigorously conducted by Michael Greenebaum '55, the concerto showed off Pierian's excellent first desk players, but they were hampered by the in-accuracies of those behind them...