Word: alleluias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wind ensemble has become a standard medium in this century. Its instruments offer a limited range of tone color, but the fullness and buoyancy of their sounds are ideal materials for manipulating sonority. The most successful piece in this regard was Howard Hanson's Chorale and Alleluia. Its combinations of woodwinds and brass were quite exhilarating, and all the more so because James A. Walker, the band's new conductor, shrewdly separated parts of each choir at various points on the stage. As throughout the evening, entrances were not uniformly clean, but the dissonant sonorities were well executed...