Mount Saint Vincent Glee Club
MOUNT SAINT VINCENT GLEE CLUB THE Glee Club of the College of Mount Saint Vincent is necessarily an organization of amateurs. Fifty young women, appearing in full academic regalia on the Town...
...Fifty young women, appearing in full academic regalia on the Town Hall stage, made no effort to shuffle off the novelty of their appearance in such a place...
...And yet the impression given was far different from what might be supposed...
...Not less valuable was the work of the supporting orchestra, directed, if you please, by the very collegiate Miss Mary Chinnery...
...As a whole, the evening did honor to the students who participated in it, and to the patrons whose confidence made it possible...
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...Without any attempt to make his youthful chorus seem professional in character, Maestro Nicola Montani, famous for his achievement as an interpreter of Palestrina music, evoked a rhythmic harmony, an expressive vocal ensemble, really charming and distinctive in character...
...Nicola Montani revealed himself once more as a master of materials which, remote from the professional concert-hall, respond only to the highest type of evocative power...
...Beethoven's Heavens Are Telling was, perhaps, a little beyond the range of the chorus, but the attempt to sing it was nevertheless praiseworthy...
...Soloists of several descriptions added to the variety of the program, which profited also by the offerings of Constantino Yon at the organ...
...Densmore's Madrigal, Cesar Fianck's l'Ange Gardien and Psalm 150, were rendered with skilful enthusiasm...
...The quality of the performance improved as the evening wore on...
Vol. 5 • April 1927 • No. 22
