Word: accompanimental
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The two Glee Clubs, led by Smith conductor Iva Dee Hiatt, hardly gave the music a chance, singing for the most part at a steady forte that ignored whatever nuances the music possessed. Again the exception was the interpolated movement, Laudate Dominum, which was sung with some feeling. The interpolation...
The corridors outside the cells of Seattle's King County jail were filled with dozens of Sunday visitors. To the accompaniment of banjos, violins and portable organs, they sang hymns. "Nothing but the blood of Jesus will wash away my sins," warbled one woman.
Two completely different approaches to violin playing characterized yesterday's concert at Aams House. The first was that of Harvard's Edward Filmanowicz, who played sonatas by Beethoven and Faure with superb piano accompaniment by Robert Freeman. Filmanowicz was fiery and exciting, and brought out all the dramatic aspects of...
Another feature of the concert was the performance of two Baroque flute sonatas with the accompaniment of a harpsichord, played nicely by Sy Hayden. Flautist Eric Herz overcame some nervousness at the beginning of a sonata by Loeillet and went on to play Bach's Sonata in G minor with...
Fully balancing the power of the Gabricli work was a series of scenes from Oedipus Rex, a setting by Igor Stravinsky of Jean Cocteau's Latin text. The use of piano accompaniment reduced the effectiveness of Stravinsky's rhythmically complex and dramatic score, but exciting singing from the European list...