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...might have finished his labors,. But then it is impossible to picture so energetic and zestful a person as Woody basking in retirement. He probably would have chosen to be still in full harness at the end. And he would have reminded us mourners of the title of that cantata by his earthly god Bach, which he loved, performed , wrote about, and recorded: "Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit...
SOUNDS OF SUMMER (NET, 8-10 p.m.). A double bill leads off with the world premiere of Peler Mennin's cantata The Pied Piper of Hamelin, narrated by Cyril Ritchard and performed by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. The second part of the program. "Old Timers' Night at the Boston Pops," includes Joan Kennedy's narration of Peter and the Wolf...
Better Than Brahms? So, alas, are most of the other antiquities performed this month at Butler's second annual Festival of Romantic Music. The six-day exercise in musical archaeology opened with the lushly sentimental overture to The May Queen, a cantata by the English composer William Sterndale Bennett. His fellow Victorians regarded him as better than Brahms. Today he is one of the forgotten men of English music. The years have been equally hard on other romantics on the Butler program. Belgium's Henri Vieuxtemps was perhaps the greatest violinist of his day, but until Cellist Jascha...
...fourth item on the program, Benjamin Britten's cantata St. Nicolas, exemplifies the typical predilections of this composer. The melos of the work derives from a dulcissimo consort whose colors are determined by the whites and blacks of the human voice. St. Nicolas, like most of Britten's work, is characterized by self-effacing virtuosity, ingenuous theatricality, and effortless joviality. The Glee Club-Choral Society performance was vigorous and eminently enjoyable, with Tenor soloist Robert Gartside, the excellent solo violin, and the accomplished boy soloist all deserving particular praise...
Portnoy's Complaint is cast in the form of a series of psychoanalytic sessions between the 33-year-old Alexander Portnoy and his psychiatrist. It is more a series of comic monologues than anything else; I think the best analogy is that of a raucous cantata. The book opens with a parody of a psychiatric dictionary: Portnoy's Complaint--after its pronunciation and origin is established--is defined as "a disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistisc impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often a perverse nature." For further information, we are told to consult an article...