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...witness and approve an exciting 100,000-ruble operatic experiment whose spade work had been done not in the communist U. S. S. R. but in the capitalist U. S. When the performance, an extraordinary second act of Carmen, was over, the Fine Arts officials beamed and congratulated Conductor Vladimir Shavitch for reducing opera's excess baggage, putting it within the reach of the masses. For in place of a cumbersome chorus and orchestra, Conductor Shavitch used sound-film. When the Toreador Song rang out powerfully, only 16 were singing it from the stage. In celluloid, the Moscow Grand...
Shavitch calls his new method Synchro-Opera. He says he is a "synchronizer" rather than a conductor. Since his demonstration has been a success, he will be authorized to train 20 "synchronizers" for opera companies to tour the Soviet Union. Traveling light and cheaply, each company will need only 20 singers, film & sound producing devices, simple scenery. In time Shavitch hopes to put the scenery as well as the sound on films...
...Best performance in four years", enthused G. Wallace Woodworth '24, conductor of the Glee Club, last night after the four hour "St. Matthew Passion" by the Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society. Temporarily deprived of his position as conductor by Dr. Koussevitzky, Woodworth was consoled after the performance by the gift of a framed photograph of the combined clubs, given by several Radcliffe members...
...president of the Choral Society, the same girls presented Dr. Koussevitzky with a chocolate rabbit, considered fitting in view of the season and subject of the concert. "I'll keep it the rest of my life," the conductor said. In proof of this declaration he promptly kissed all of his feminine benefactors...
Sixty members of the Crimson Glee Club will make several additional recordings for Victor Saturday at Symphony Hall. The selections chosen by the conductor will be taken from the regular concert repertoire of the Club. Because of the extreme difficulty of recording a male chorus presentation and still preserving its quality, the records will not be released for public purchase unless approved by Woodworth...