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Though part of the enthusiasm in the theatre was created by the almost spectacular performance of Bach's Cantata #50, Nun ist das Heil that ended the program, the audience was also attempting to express its appreciation for what had been an unusually fine, interesting evening. There were some unfortunate shortcomings in the ambitious program, but in its entirety it was a testament both to the efforts of the students in the chorus and the skill of Miss Hiatt. Said one member of the Music Department, "that woman is a wizard...
...twelve, he was playing the organ at the regular services at the Third Lutheran Church in Baltimore; at 16, he was conducting the choir at the Episcopal Cathedral. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1960 as conductor of the 29-year-old choral society called the Cantata Singers, and his Philharmonic Hall debut with the Festival Orchestra, performing the Brandenburg concertos...
...Paris, he expanded music's language with his studies of polytonality, meter and counterpoint, but he also wrote music that was crippled by flat jokes, banalities and topical trivia. He has written music for text by the Catholic laureate Paul Claudel-and also a Bar Mitzvah cantata for Israel's 13th birthday. With 15 operas, 12 symphonies, 25 film scores, 15 ballets, 35 concertos and 18 string quartets (he stopped when he had written more than Beethoven) behind him, his message is still unclear; in works heavy with both aphorism and enigma, his music ranges from the insufferably...
...dramatic cantata called The Death of the Bishop of Brindisi, Menotti makes the same point with fresh power and beauty. In its premiere in Cincinnati's Music Hall, his music won him an ovation greater than any in his long career. Scored for full orchestra, two soloists, and a chorus of 525, the cantata had 325 children onstage and everybody's mother in the audience. But Brindisi would have been a triumph anywhere...
Written for chorus and full orchestra, the cantata parallels the psalms sung for the ancient Tenebrae service, in which the mystery of Christ's sacrifice is sung to diminishing candlelight, until at last only one candle remains-the Light of the World. The colors of the music suggest the gathering shadows, and Poulenc gives it a timeless serenity by weaving into it ancient liturgical forms along with angular modern music...