Word: cantatas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Looking ahead to next week, the From Foundation will present its usual collection of first birthdays with 1974 compositions of by Donald Sur and Earl Kim of the Music Faculty. And without any birthdays to spice up their program, the talented Cantata Singers will perform works of Bach and Stravinsky on Wednesday...
...Cantata Singers and Ensemble, Phillip Kelsey conductor; choral works of Bach and Stravinsky; Sanders...
Dorian's Wrinkles. The work filched from the modern Phantom (William Finley) is a rock-cantata retelling of the Faust legend. In order to hear it properly performed, the Phantom, as well as his dream singer, must strike similar bargains with Swan, juicily played by Paul Williams, who also composed the film's good score. Swan in turn owes his power to an earlier Faustian deal of his own, a pact that borrows a few wrinkles from Dorian Gray's compact. This repetition reduces contemporary middlebrow mythomania to absurd shambles...
...Moody Blues, pioneers in the field, have sold more than 10 million records over the past six years; ELP and Yes, the most progressive of all such groups, each has between 8 and 10 million sales to its credit; the album of Wakeman's dramatic cantata Journey to the Centre of the Earth became a million-dollar seller in only six weeks...
Jack Gwillim is a fine Clown when carousing with the others in the comical caterwauling cantata at midnight; but, later, he simply does not have a good enough singing voice to do justice to "Come away, death" and the concluding curtain song (which would also benefit from better synchronization between singer and backstage orchestra). This is no small point, for Shakespeare wrote the heavily musical role especially for Robert Arnim, a new company acquisition who happened to be a superb singer...