Word: accompanimental
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Bone-Deep Showmanship. Sometimes reaching for a phrase with his hands, sometimes swaying or relaxed or snapping rigid, Belafonte husked his way through the folk songs of half a dozen countries, e.g., work songs from the U.S. and Caribbean, an old English love song, an Israeli march, a partisan song...
Killmayer: Missa Brevis and Harrison: Mass (Margaret Hillis conducting the New York Concert Choir and Orchestra; Epic). The Fromm Music Foundation, joint sponsor with Epic records of the excellent Twentieth Century Composers Series, takes a look at current choral writing. Young (29) Munich-born Composer Wilhelm Killmayer's Missa...
Some of Diamond's colleagues also heard from last week: ¶J Alan Hovhaness' Easter Cantata got its first New York concert performance by the National Orchestral Association under Guest Conductor Newell Jenkins. Mystically described by Armenian-descended Composer Hovhaness ("The vocal element ... is the sun; the other...
The two numbers after intermission were as well received as their predecessors. Kodaly's Te Deum Laudamus, a massive composition demanding endurance as well as musicianship, was presented with the fervor it requires. Soloists Margaret Lapsley, Marcia Heintzelman, Franklin van Halsema, and Thomas Beveridge were impressive in both vocal quality...
Clad in high-collared vests and baggy cotton trousers, the three barefoot Indian musicians sat down cross-legged on an Oriental carpet on the stage of Judson Memorial Hall at Manhattan's Washington Square. Glancing at the drummer to the right of him, Ravi Shankar cradled his sitar in...