Word: scholas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whole, Conductor John Ferris and his choir succeeded in bringing coherence out of this complexity, primarily by maintaining a consistently high level of precision. The choir's tone was excellently blended, and its diction surprisingly good. St. Paul's Men's Schola provided the plainsong from the balcony, to the great advantage of the total effort...
ANTA's auditioning left much to be desired. Benny Goodman was chosen as the first jazzman to tour Russia when even the Russians knew he was strictly otstaly.* Then last year, the Schola Cantorum from the University of Arkansas was refused traveling money; the choir raised its own expenses and went off to win first prize in the Polyphonic Competition in Italy and was invited to the White House on its return. Senator J. William Fulbright promoted the cultural exchange program in the first place; and since the Schola Cantorum comes from the heart of Fulbright country...
Barnum-Sized Bushel. As the first building completed in the 14-acre, $142 million Lincoln Center complex, Philharmonic Hall attracted to its stage last week a Barnum-sized bushel of musical talent. On opening night, Conductor Bernstein used not only the Philharmonic but also three choruses (the Juilliard, Schola Cantorum, and Columbus Boychoir) and twelve top-priced soloists, including Tenors Richard Tucker and Jon Vickers, Soprano Eileen Farrell and Mezzo-Soprano Shirley Verrett-Carter. The Philharmonic was followed in later programs by the Boston, the Philadelphia and the Cleveland orchestras, by the New York Pro Musica, the Juilliard String Quartet...
Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). A potpourri called "A Trip to Christmas," narrated by Jane Wyatt and starring the Lennon Sisters, Violette Verdy and Edward Villella of the New York City Ballet, and the Schola Cantorum. Color...
Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Schola Cantorum, soloists, the composer conducting. Columbia...