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...evening in the spring of 1916, Archibald T. (Doc) Davison '06 was conducting a joint rehearsal of the Harvard glee Club and Radcliffe choral Society. After the two groups had finished singing Brahms' "Song of destiny" and the Bach motet, "I Wrestle and Pray," Davison triumphantly pulled open the stage curtains revealing Karl Mack, the awesome conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Muck, delighted with the performance, invited the groups to sing the pieces with the orchestra at the 1917 Pension Concert in Symphony Hall...
...motet Jesu, Meine Freude, which opened the Society's Sunday concert, exemplifies one difficulty peculiar to music for "chamber chorus." In a small group, Bach's vocal demands--no matter how great--cannot be conveniently ignored by concentrating purely on massed sound. When the Bach Society Chorus disappointed at all, it did so in technical respects. Conductor Howard Brown clearly brought out individual lines of counterpoint, but the sheer effort required to sing all the notes reasonably in tune resulted in a tone that was often coarse and piercing...
...Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony (hand somely packaged at $52.40); Bach and Handel Arias (London), sung by Contralto Kathleen Ferrier with the London Philharmonic, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult; Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé-Complete Ballet (London), with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Geneva Motet Choir conducted by Ernest Ansermet...
...each other in these works. Also, in the case of the Benedictus, the choirs were distributed in three parts of Sanders Theatre while in O Jesu the size of the chorus was cut considerably. There is no doubt, however, that the tonal chorus achieved, from the very first subdued motet to the final exultant Jubilate, place it in a unique and exalted rank among college choirs...
...Music Club Chorus under Peter Westergaard showed lovely tone quality and clearly-defined phrasing in the opening Palestina motet as well as in the difficult Machaut piece. Conductor Westergaard was enterprising as always in putting the program together and he carried it out with enthusiasm and understanding...