Radcliffe choral society
Variant namesRadcliffe Choral Society, a women's choral group, was founded in 1899 by Marie Gallison, disbanded in 1969, and reconstituted in 1974.
From the description of Records, 1907-1998 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 406340144
The oldest women’s organization at Radcliffe and one of the oldest women’s choirs in the nation, the Radcliffe Choral Society was founded in 1899. The choir, open to all Radcliffe students, was established and directed by Marie Gallison at the urging of President Elizabeth Cary Agassiz. In 1912, the Society joined the Harvard University Choir for Harvard's first annual Christmas carol service, conducted by Archibald Davison. Davison began conducting the Society in 1915, and under his leadership the Society began performing regularly with the all-male Harvard Glee Club and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Other directors of the Society included G. Wallace Woodworth (1925-1958), Elliot Forbes (1958-1970), F. John Adams (1970-1974), Priscilla Chapman (1974-1979), Beverly J. Taylor (1979-1995) and Jameson Marvin (1995- ).
In 1955, the Radcliffe Freshman Chorus was established. Led by a conductor appointed by the Society conductor and open only to Radcliffe first years, the Chorus was intended to provide training for future choral members; Chorus members became provisional choral members in their sophomore year. A child of the Choral Society, and created at the annual discretion of the Choral Council, the Chorus operated independently under the management of the Society and with Choral funding. The Freshman Chorus was superseded in 1968 by the creation of the Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus, open to singers from all classes and graduate students but still intended to provide training in choral music for those with little experience.
In the fall of 1971, coinciding with the partial merger of Harvard University and Radcliffe Colleges, the Society evolved into the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, a mixed-voice and audition-based choral group, which also drew members from the Harvard Glee Club. Since not all Society members could join Collegium Musicum, the remaining members joined the Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus. In 1974, however, the Society was reinstated as a separate all-female chorus from the Collegium; the Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus was dissolved. (A new Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus was established in 1979).
Today, the Radcliffe Choral Society, along with the Harvard Glee Club, the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum and the Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus, form the Holden Choirs . The Society also now features an all-female a cappella group called the ‘Cliffe Notes.
From the guide to the Records of the Radcliffe Choral Society, and, 1957-1970, 1976-1986, (Harvard University Archives)
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| creatorOf | Radcliffe Choral Society. Records, 1907-1998 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Gallison, Marie Reuter, 1861-. Memoir, 1949. | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Lynch, Audry. Scrapbooks, 1951-1985 (inclusive), 1951-1955 (bulk). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Radcliffe College student government associations collection, 1896-1979 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Radcliffe College. Office of the Dean of Residence. Records of the Office of the Dean of Residence, 1925-1971 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Shepherd, Elizabeth Crampton Booth, 1914-. Scrapbook, 1932-1936 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Records of the Office of the Dean, 1964-1981 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Doyle, Margaret Young. Scrapbook, 1938-1941 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Papers of Archibald Thompson Davison | Harvard University Archives. | |
| referencedIn | Horner, Matina. Records of the President of Radcliffe College: Series 5, 1972-1989 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Radcliffe College. Office of the Dean. Records of the Office of the Dean, 1964-1981 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
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| referencedIn | Moore, Marjorie Hill. Papers of Marjorie Hill Moore, 1949-1995 (inclusive), 1949-1953 (bulk). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Radcliffe College. Alumnae Association. Class collections, 1890-1985 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Papers, 1910-1959 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Radcliffe College student activities collection, 1882-1998 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Dunbar, Dorothea, 1893-1975. Scrapbook, 1910-1914. | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Archibald, Mary Ernst, 1882-1975. Scrapbook, 1899-1903 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Records of the President of Radcliffe College, 1960-1972 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Papers of Elliot Forbes | Harvard University Archives. | |
| referencedIn | Brooks, Eleanor Stabler, 1892-1986. Papers, 1917-1985 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Vickery, Thyra. Radcliffe Choral Society admission certificate, n.d. | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Radcliffe College student government associations collection, 1896-1979 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Class collections, 1890-1989 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Munroe, Katharine Langdon, 1891-1956. Papers, 1910-1971 (inclusive), 1910-1912 (bulk). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Lillian A.Friedberg papers | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Lorna Sagendorph Trowbridge scrapbook | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Records of the Office of the Dean, 1955-1978 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Zoltan, Edith Windsor, 1927-2003. Papers of Edith Windsor Zoltan, 1943-1949. | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Worth, Helen Henderson, 1895-1954. Scrapbook, 1912-1916 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Papers of Noelle B. Beatty | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Radcliffe College. Office of the Dean. Records of the Office of the Dean, 1954-1988 (inclusive), 1972-1988 (bulk). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Allen, Annie Winsor, 1902-. Papers, 1920-1958 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Montgomery, Eleanor Gilbert, 1896-1996. Papers, 1919-1995 (bulk: 1914-1938) | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Records of the Office of the Dean of Residence, 1925-1971 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Cobb, Madeline W. Papers, 1913-1967 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Mariner, Marion Waters, 1900-. Scrapbook, 1919-1923 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Hildreth, Dorothy Elizabeth, 1894-1980. Scrapbook, 1912-1921 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Records of the President of Radcliffe College, 1972-1989 | Radcliffe College Archives, Radcliffe Institute | |
| referencedIn | Radcliffe College student activities collection, 1882-1998 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Radcliffe College. Class of 1932. Scrapbooks and papers, 1928-1984 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Papers, 1905-2001 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Trusted, Jennifer. Memoir, 2007. | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | Records of the Radcliffe Choral Society, and, 1957-1970, 1976-1986 | Harvard University Archives. | |
| referencedIn | Osborne, Elizabeth. Papers, 1912-1916 inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Radcliffe College. Class of 1946. Records, 1943-1996 (inclusive). | Radcliffe College, Archives | |
| referencedIn | Moore, Elizabeth Weichel, 1925-. Papers, 1929-2007 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Otto Luening collection of non-commercial sound recordings [sound recording], 1950-1983 | The New York Public Library. Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound. | |
| referencedIn | Papers, 1917-1985 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Willett, Mary Sherman. Scrapbook of Mary Sherman Willett, 1927-1962 (inclusive), 1927-1931(bulk). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America |
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