Word: cantatas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first program (by 190 voices, an orchestra of 20) ranged from delicate, pure-sounding choruses, e.g., For God So Loved the World and Blessed Are the Faithful, to the haunting cantata, Saul, Saul, Why Persecutest Thou Me? Director Reese hardly expected to make Schütz fans of his audience in one concert, was ready for one listener's "My, it's very different, isn't it?", another's hopeful sigh after the final Amen, "Is it really over?" At least among his choristers, familiarity bred delight. As one young singer burbled after the music...
With Bach's Cantata No. 15 we were transported two days ahead to Easter Sunday. Trumpet, tympani fanfares and the gay laughter of one of the vocal ensembles are typical of this buoyant celebration of the Resurrection...
Soprano Jean Lunn, who in addition to singing in the Schuetz and Bach performed a solo cantata by Tunder, was in wonderful form. I have never more admired the agility of her voice and the intelligence of her musicianship. Robert Gartside created a striking effect with his accomplished tenor but he could have shown more restraint is the ensembles. The other soloists, Anne Talbot, Robert Simon, and Bernard Barbeau, were of equally high caliber...
There is enough spirit and talent in Kirkland to make possible a House performance of Allen Sapp's cantata, "Little Boy Lost." There is enough indifference to provoke complaints from athletic secretaries that the Straus Trophy will never again be Kirkland's if more men don't participate in House sports...
...soprano was at her best in modern selections, especially in the Air de Lia. Taken from Debussy's carly cantata L'Enfant Prodigue (for which he won the Prix de Rome), this aria is one of the most taxing in the repertoire. Miss Wheeler managed its wide range with case and made believable, even in a concert setting, the portrait of a bereaved mother's grief...