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Much, however, as the audience (and I suspect, the singers) might have enjoyed an evening of football songs, there was other music on the program, and some of it was much worth remembering. I am thinking, in particular, of the Coronation Scene from Moussorgsky's Boris Godounov, sung by both clubs together. Any chorus of two hundred massed on a stage tends to be impressive, no matter what is sung. But the Moussorgsky was more than impressive; it was a triumph of high spirit and high decibels. The accompanists, playing what sounded like a two-piano arrangement of the massive...
...balance of last night's program consisted largely of sixteenth-century religious music, American folk songs and spirituals, and a handful of unclassifiable songs. One of the latter was Francois Poulenc's Chanson A Boire, dedicated to the Harvard Glee Club and sung by the Elis. It's a sort of cadenza for chorus, and, despite occasional Gallic touches, did not sound very different from the American folk songs sung separately by both clubs...
...real name. The real Kim II Sung was a Korean guerrilla who bravely fought the Japanese occupiers in the 1919 uprising. The Communist interloper who took over power in 1948 simply swiped his name...
...vaster sports stadium. Forests of swinging cranes constantly add to the number of workers' apartment houses. The national emblem is a flying horse that decorates everything from matchboxes to tractors: the horse is supposed to be charging toward socialism at 300 miles a day. Premier Kim II Sung's* proclaimed ambition is to "reach and pass Japan's per capita production in ten years...
Hasty Puddings. Young Alan wrote a football marching song that is still sung at Choate, was one of the editors of the school yearbook, along with 19-year-old John Fitzgerald Kennedy. (A registered Republican, Lerner organized a Stevenson Club in 1956, likes Kennedy well enough and still sees him occasionally, but has said of the 1960 election that he really does not "give a damn," is for Jack only because he is against Nixon...