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...white choral robe and white slacks, and topped by his shiny black Afro, Ingraham and the dashiki and and Afro-garbed choir exuded a contagious joy and enthusiasm in their singing. The audience forgot its own troubles for three hours and stood up and clapped and chanted and shouted amen and hallelujah with the Kuumbas. Despite the hard work, lack of support and other problems, Walters's evaluation of the group's growth seemed quite appropriate: "They still make beautiful music and that's what it's all about...
...firms chosen will be concentrated in Boston and New York; nor will they all be experts in managing, for instance, growth stocks; nor will all be adherents to the Harvard Business School Gospel (amen). Cabot and Putnam still do not really know what style Harvard Management will follow in handling its $1 billion, so they would like to see as much diversity as possible among the firms that will be tapped as information sources for the internal company...
...ensemble displayed throughout the work was extraordinary to hear. Complex rhythmic changes were handled to hear. Complex rhythmic changes were handled with a sureness that evades most choral groups. The choir's conductor, John Ferris, produced a fine sweep of phrase. Entrances were always sure, from the very first Amen of the Deus in adjutorium...
...opening movements, the Kyrie and the Gloria, were spectacular. Adams chose perfect tempi--a wonderfully slow Adagio to begin the work, a free-flowing Andante for the Christe, and a very lively Allegro vivace in the opening of the Gloria. He took the huge fugue, "in Gloria Dei Patris, Amen," at a breakneck speed which left the audience--and the singers--breathless at the intermission. The last movement, Agnus Dei, was extremely dramatic as the singers' supplications for "inward and outward peace" were interrupted by the trumpet calls of war. The several tempo transitions in this movement were managed smoothly...
Even in these works the singing was clean and in tune. But the sustained "nnnn" at the end of each Amen was objectionable...