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...particularly gratifying that you cited Martin Luther King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," giving the background and excerpts of this memorable document. Viewing it as a stirring summation of the current conflict, I have, with Dr. King's permission, recently completed a Cantata for Mixed Chorus based on excerpts of the letter...
...melody seem amazingly modern to today's musicians, but in his own time he was considered hopelessly demode. He was the last great voice of concerted polyphonic music, a style that had lasted since the early 17th century. The very forms Bach favored-the fugue, the church cantata, the motet-were outmoded even as he worked on them. "Old Wig," one son called him, and Bach in his later years sadly agreed. "My art," he said, "has become old-fashioned...
Leaping to Nkrumah's defense, the Ghanaian Times recalled Franklin Roosevelt's 1937 attack on the U.S. Supreme Court, adding: "We cannot have a wig-and-gown cantata while Rome is burning. The nation cannot be bamboozled by the diabolic insinuations and aspersions of a confused and antagonistic judiciary." Nkrumah completed the outrage when, in violation of Ghana's constitution, he sacked Sir Arku Korsah, 69, a widely respected jurist who in 1956 became Ghana's first black Chief Justice. Noting that even South Africa's high-handed Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd has never interfered...
...works by Bach (Cantata No. 65), Buxtehude (Das neugebor'ne Kindelein) and Schein (Vom Hillel hoch da komm ich her), as performed by the Glee Clubs with the Orchestra, were, in nearly every detail, an unmitigated delight...
With Charles Bressler as tenor soloist, Dunn and the Festival Orchestra recreated Cantata 55 ("Ich armer Suendenknecht") and three arias chosen from other cantatas. Bressler, who might be called a coloratura tenor, apparently found no difficulty in notes an octave above middle C; lower, however, his voice was so mobile that it seemed thin at any one instant. Dunn chose slightly strange tempos in the closing work, Brandenburg Concerto No. 5: the second movement was faster, the third slower than usual...