Word: rcs
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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Both of the new HGC-RCS records are excellent, although in very different ways. Both are marked by first-rate choral singing and marred by unfortunate technical lapses...
...Christmas disk has somewhat better surfaces, and the same almost matchless quality of choral singing. The assortment of short pieces has more variety than the mass, and gives the HGC-RCS the chance to display considerable breadth of technique. They approach each carol with appropriate vigor or with calm, so that they are somehow able to sound festive without sounding like the YWCA Christmas party...
Both records are worth anyone's five dollars, and both are a complete success for the Glee Club and the Choral Society. But the HGC-RCS is not heard to best advantage here, as they have been in their Berlioz recordings for Victor. They would do well to remove themselves from the indelicate clutches of Cambridge Records Inc., posthaste...
Woody directs the HGC-RCS and Munch directs the BSO in a superlative performance of Bach's St. Matthew Passion at 8:30 this evening. At not quite the other end of the musical spectrum Dizzy Gillespie draws crowds at Storyville...