Word: cantatas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little worried too about the conducting he would have to do in California next month. At the University of Southern California he will lead a performance of his cantata St. Nicolas for tenor, mixed voices, string orchestra, piano and percussion, and preside over a production of his opera Albert Herring. Although he has conducted some performances of his English Opera Group in the last two years, he still feels uneasy with a baton. "I never seem to know whether to move my arms to the right or left, or up or down . . ." But he was happy about going west...
...Sunday he got a chance to show his cantata, Big Spring, to a visiting musician who was conducting a choral program for the prisoners. The visitor thought it was good, took it to a Nashville radio musician who declared it "definitely better than good." Grandstaff mailed off a copy to Big Spring Druggist-Historian Shine Philips...
Chromatics & Hash. The cantata itself had been whooped up, among others, by Composer Roy Harris ("a sense of strength ... I wonder where Grandstaff heard choral singing so brilliant"), and Big Spring bigwigs had watered down the Tennessee authorities. Last week, accompanied by a grim, 200-lb., two-gunned Big Spring sheriff, R. E. Wolf, and a smiling Shine Philips, Composer Grandstaff was flown to Texas by private plane to hear his cantata sung...
...composer (Robert Russell Bennett) had tried to dignify the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball club with a Symphony in D (TIME, May 26, 1941). Last year George (Tubby the Tuba) Kleinsinger had the Metropolitan Opera's Robert Merrill warbling his Brooklyn Baseball Cantata. Last week, all such pretenses of musical dignity were gone, but with two new tunes in their bat box, the National League's colorful Dodgers were slugging hard in the jump, jive and jukebox league...
...clubs presented a concert of choral music by the Bach Cantata Club assisted by the Harvard Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Nicholas Van Slyck '46. Most recently, the clubs gave a concert of modern chamber and choral music. The chorus, directed by Assistant Professor Irving Fine, one of the faculty advisers of the clubs, sang two of his compositions and one by Gordon Binkerd, a teaching fellow in the Music Department. During the year the clubs also provided a complete performance of Bach's Musical Offering under the direction of David G. Hughes '47 and a lecture on twelve tone music...