Word: choral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Annual Christmas services, conducted by Dean Willard L. Sperry, with a musical program by the University Choir and the Choral Society of Radcliffe, under the direction of Archibald T. Davison, professor of Choral Music, will be held in the Memorial Church, this evening at 8:15 o'clock...
...Academy of Music, tall, stoop-shouldered, 66-year-old Rachmaninoff stood on the conductor's platform for the first time in 30 years, earnestly rowed the Philadelphia Orchestra through two of his weightiest works. One was his Third and latest Symphony, the other his 45-minute-long choral symphony The Bells, which needs a 200-man chorus as well as a 100-man orchestra to boom out its melodious refrain. For several days he had given up piano practice to brush up his conducting technique. Said he: "Playing the piano and conducting don't go together. It takes...
Annual Christmas services, conducted by Dean Willard L. Sperry, with a musical program by the University Choir and the Choral Society of Radcliffe, under the direction of Archibald T. Davison, professor of Choral Music, will be held in the Memorial Church on Monday evening. December 18, and on Tuesday afternoon and evening, December...
Hearing Strawinsky's Symphony of Psalms last week suggested again the rather controversial subject of setting sacred texts in orchestral-choral compositions for the concert hall. To those who consider religious texts exclusively churchly and liturgical this practice seems a violation of the true character of the words...
...Psalms, because the details of the treatment of the text--the setting of the individual words--was considered inferior to that in the works of Byrd. This sort of comparison is useless as a way of determining the musical value of either type of composition, for in the orchestral-choral concert work, the details of fitting the individual words and phrases to the musical lines is secondary to the general movement of the whole composition. In the small church piece, on the other hand, the subtle enhancement of the phonetic and expressive qualities of each word and phrase...