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Choir. The University Choir gave a spectacular performance of the Bach Cantata No. 131 last Sunday. The Motet they will sing this Sunday afternoon should be very good. The Motets are to singers what string quartets are to violinists: a form more easily appreciated by performers than by listeners. Just a warning to those who might expect to hear in the motet the more varied timbres of a cantata orchestration. --Kenneth Hoffman...
SANDERS THEATER--Cantata Singers. Bach: Cantatas Nos. 27, 125; Schoenberg: Dreimal tausend Jahre; Sweelinck: Huguenot Psalms. $5-$1. Wednesday, February...
DUNSTER HOUSE LIBRARY. Bach: Cantata Es ist genugn, and two ricercares from the Musical Offering. Free. Friday, November...
Ferris took the final chorale, which was sung by the congregation as well as choir, at a slow tempo. It brought the cantata to a measured, dignified close. The cantata was a moving experience, in part because of its contribution as a religious statement within the Evensong's framework, but more as a purely musical success...
...only disappointments of the program were the Buxtehude setting of Ein feste Burg, an uninspired set of variations, and the postlude, the brilliant Sinfonia from Bach's Cantata #29 known in solo violin, solo organ, full orchestral, and Moog synthesizer versions. The Sinfonia was played brightly by strings and brass only to be let down by the organ. There was not enough bass registration to carry through the Church--in part, a design flaw of the Fisk instrument--but even the upper voices were too thin to compete with such a healthy orchestra. Coupled with a number of fingering lapses...