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...People. There are two ways to sing Bach. Very staccato. And very legato. The second is much harder, but also more rewarding. Better musically. So let's do it that...
...year in Sanders, Michael Steinberg pronounced him "outstandingly gifted." Not the least of these gifts is his ability to elicit from each musician in the group the best he or she can produce. Adams' prowess as a conductor, the caliber of the individual performers, and a varied repertoire, including Bach's "Jesu, Meine Freude", Brahms Opus 104, Purcell's "Funeral Sentences", three Byrd motets, and works of Debussy, Sermisy, Vecchi and Lassus, promise an excellent concert...
...Look at the text, people. Bach didn't leave us many musical marking because he didn't have to. It's all in the text. Basses--storm up that chromatic scale on "Sie noch so brummen." Brummen means, well, movement, confusion, like the French brouiller, boulverser. Make beautiful German vowels people: "Sie noch". And sopranos, pull that C-natural in measure 15 for everything it's worth. It makes the most ghastly chord...
...group's members noted that Adams had taught them a great deal not only about the individual pieces under rehearsal, but about musicianship, vocal technique and music history as well. The tenor said. "In the Bach Motet, John continually points out the musical symbolizations of the text. I had always known that Baroque, music did that, but I tended not to notice it as much as I do now. I sing much more intelligently now." The soprano agreed: "It's difficult to mediate between concentrating on the small, glorious moment and the macrostructure of a piece of music. John points...
After the intermission, Kent played Bach's Prelude and Figue in A Major (BWV 536). With so many masterpieces of the form to choose from, it is unfortunate that Kent should have come up with such an uninspiring example. The A Major does posses the architectural perfection of Bach's composition, but the long strings of 7-6 suspensions, obvious pedal points, and exposed pedal solos do not produce anything striking. Even the fugue theme was dull. Through it all, Kent's playing was beautifully clear and devold of irritating mannerisms. His style is a convincing blend of new scholarship...