Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Afternoon performances are notoriously ragged--especially when it rains--and Sanders Theatre certainly isn't the ideal place for a large concert, anyway. I know this, and the above should serve as an apology to the members of the Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society, and Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, whose...
Bach's Magnificat in D, for Tovey, his "most comprehensively representative work," has proved itself an arduous undertaking for almost every choral group. Bach himself conceived the Song of the Virgin as an intricately subtle and profoundly joyous cantata, and he wrote for it instrumental parts that are as demanding...
Mr. Forbes' reading of the Magnificat was brisk and business-like, but not much else. The singing was often angular and disjointed; and the orchestra had enough trouble merely trying to follow the beat. Neither of the two seemed at all at ease with the other, and both together produced...
The soloist group, for the most part, showed itself to be considerably more competent. The melodic lines were supple, the tone solid, and the phrasing refreshingly simple. But these good people were often forced to compete with the instrumentalists who were accompanying them. I was particularly impressed by Lila Woodruff...
Whitla's survey is an empirical support for a truism: that personal contact with the faculty means better-educated graduates--even by a present standard of "liberal education." Being a truism, it is apt to be ignored, and being true, it should not.