A new holiday song cycle
The Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society’s holiday gift came early this year, in the form of a newly commissioned piece of classical music from alumnus Paul Moravec ’79. Moravec, the winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for music who served as assistant conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum while an undergraduate, composed for the choruses “Winter Songs,” a three-movement work setting poems by Emily Dickinson, Robert Burns, and William Shakespeare. “Winter Songs” premiered at the annual community holiday concert on Dec. 2 in Sanders Theatre. “Having written this new piece with the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society, I’ve come home,” he said. Andrew Clark, director of the glee club and choral society, said the commission — a project two years in the making — was intended “to create a new body of work to complement the sacred music people love to hear this time of year...