Word: schmidts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young educational television station WGBH turned over its weekly program "Performance" on Monday evening to members of the Harvard Summer School Chorus for the second time. The resulting 50-minute concert, again under the expert leadership of Harold Schmidt, proved highly enjoyable if not quite up to the level of last summer's show. The shortcomings were due to two factors: Schmidt's essayal of more difficult music, and a less effective use of the television cameras...
...Acis and Galathea, was musically first-rate. Handel was an infallible judge of what singers love to do and should be asked to do. This tale from Ovid was evidently a favorite with him, for he did three settings of it and even plagiarized from it for other works. Schmidt chose the second version with words by John Gay of Beggar's Opera fame. The charming soprano and tenor solos were beautifully handled by Sarah-Jane Smith and Antonio Giarraputo...
...group of Renaissance secular pieces fared moderately well. They have no accompaniment, and occasionally suffered from insecure pitch. Lassus' Mon coeur went too slowly for my taste; and Monteverdi's dramatic early Baroque madrigal Dorinda lay a bit high for the sopranos. Schmidt wisely used only an octet for Mauduit's Enparadis, a charming example of vers mesure, in which the musical rhythms follow those of the spoken text...
...program is under the direction of Professor Harold Schmidt, assisted by Sara-Jane Smith '56, soprano; Antonio Garoputo, tenor; Polly Davis and Gaston Allaire, accompanists...
According to chorus-director Schmidt, the newly organized group of 25 singers will be an innovation of the Harvard chorus. This group will sing English and French chansons...