Word: cantatas
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...When the 55 youngsters of the Princeton (N.J.) High School Choir performed in West Berlin, audiences were indeed shocked, but they were also delighted. People who had turned up expecting to hear such staples as Surrey with the Fringe on Top, got a dose of Anton Webern-the complex Cantatas Nos. 1 and 2-plus a Buxtehude cantata and Bach's Magnificat. As it passed the mid-point of its month-long tour of Europe last week, the choir had collected a scrapbook full of glowing reviews. The fact that teenagers could sing music of such complexity, wrote...
What is lacking in Basehart's performance is sufficient feeling for the glorious music of Richard's speech. From his first Wales scene to the end, the play is a cantata with Richard as soloist. Richard is above all a poet-musician; he prefers ears to spears, couplets to doublets, books to hooks, writing to fighting, rhyme to grime. Basehart does not sing well enough...
...solitude. But Falla never stopped working, and the years of silence were filled with a dream-"to glorify the immortality of Spain through music." Last week, at Milan's La Scala, the grand dream came to life at the premiere of Falla's four-hour-long scenic cantata La Atlantida...
Ping, Pang, Pong. The old. unhappy exile spun out his cantata in 29 scenes, but at his death, most of the orchestration was still incomplete; the rough score entrusted to his sister Maria contained as many as six alternate versions of some scenes. The job of selecting the best versions and of stitching the whole thing together was taken over by Spanish Composer Ernesto Halffter, a onetime pupil. Halffter was confident that he could remain true to the master's "musical tastes and ascetic conceptions...
...cantata introduces an old man, the Spirit of the Sea, who relates the story of the sinking of Atlantis to a young man named Christopher Columbus. The story winds through the wanderings of Hercules, his destruction of the three-headed monster Geryones, and finally ends with the vision of Columbus-with alleluias of thanksgiving for the land he will soon discover. Completely tonal, full of color and exciting contrasts, the heroic score was never overwhelming, always deft in its handling of a myriad of descriptive effects. And the weightiness of the theme was relieved by occasional touches of humor, most...