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Twenty sopranos from the Radcliffe Choral Society (RCS) will accompany the Collegium in two sections of the Passion orginally written for boy's choruses. This additional soprano section will stand above the Collegium performers in the stage balcony at Sanders Theater, allowing the higher melodies to float above those of the main body of the chorus...
Vice President of RCS Stacey A. Street '90 said Friday night will mark the first time the chorus has performed the Hamer piece in full. She said the piece, which the choir has been rehearsing since January, is a distinctly contemporary piece without a standard melody. Although Street said the work was difficult to interpret at first, she added that the group has grown to like...
...RCS will continue its centennial celebration next year with a reunion dinner for past RCS members and a "historical concert" (currently scheduled for November 11) which will feature period music from each decade in which the RCS has been in existence, Taylor said...
Taylor added that she hopes to use the RCS centennial as a way to promote and preserve women's choral music. In addition to sponsoring the creation of new choral works and performing them for the public, RCS hopes to celebrate the centennial by assembling a compilation of "lost" choral works, choral works from their own repertoire and works from the repertoires of other choral groups...
...RCS was awarded first prize in the 1983 Welch International Eisteddfod Competition and second prize in the Dutch International Korrfest of the same year. The group is planning another world tour in 1991 and has just returned from a series of concerts in Washington...