Word: cantatas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other awards: Poet Robert Frost, for The Witness Tree; Esther Forbes, for her history, Paul Revere; Historian Samuel Eliot Morison, for his biography, Admiral of the Ocean Sea, a life of Columbus; Composer William Schuman, for Secular Cantata, No. 2, A Free Song...
When Dr. Koussevitsky raised his baton for the world premiere of William Schumann's second secular cantata, "A Free Song," the combined Radcliffe and Harvard choirs had a bare three weeks of rehearsal behind them; the baritone soloists had three days. Yet the technical difficulties of the music had all been mastered, the opening dissonance was clean, the final "We Hear Liberty" rang out, and with very few and minor exceptions the performance was all that could have been expected. There was no lack of smoothness, maturity, etc, by the non-professional choruses "to be made up by their vigor...
...concert opened with a Mozart Cantata and included selections from the Palestine Masses and the Cherubin: "Requiem in C Minor." The latter number was presented as a memorial for the one-hundredth anniversary of the death of its composer...
...Mozart Cantata on Program...
...chorus will begin the program with a Mozart Cantata, followed by selections from one of the Palestrina Masses. This part of the concert will be climaxed by the Cherubin "Requiem in C Minor", in memorial to its composer, who died one-hundred years ago today...