Word: singed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Later in the day the Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society set out by train from South Station for their annual spring tour. They plan to sing in a number of towns south of Boston, including Brooklyn, Washington, and New York, where they will join the Boston Symphony Orchestra for two Carnegie Hall concerts...
...from Radcliffe again sang in the carol service with the choir. Davison was taking a calculated risk, but he won. Lowell never said another word about the carol services. Indeed, shortly after the Harvard-Radcliffe performance with the BSO in 1917, Lowell requested Davison to have the Glee Club sing at a ceremony honoring Marshall Joffre. His closing remarks to Davison were, "and don't forget to invite the ladies from Radcliffe...
When Pierre Monteux became conductor of the Boston Symphony in 1919, the reputation of the Glee Club and Choral Society was so well established that he did not even bother with an audition before inviting them to sing the grail scene of Wagner's Parsifal...
...with Muck, Davison had to find a way to overcome Koussevitzky's prejudice. The task this time, however, was considerable easier. Even before the new conductor arrived in Boston, Davison had decided to have his chorus sing Brahms' German Requiem with the BSO. Monteux had never suggested such an ambitious choral piece, but Davison arranged to hire 60 members of the symphony for two performances of the work in April, 1925. He had planned to conduct these concerts himself, but at the last moment asked Koussevitzky to take his place, maintaining that although he liked to train choruses, he preferred...
...many pairs of the world, but never with the pleasure that I fund in working with the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral society. They are young, intelligent, and, above all, enthusiastic. From their remarkable conductor, G. Wallace Woodworth, they have learned to lover music and to love to sing. I am proud to conduct their 100th concert with the Boston symphony Orchestra. It is a joy to make music with them...