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...program comprises music for both full chorus and madrigal groups including Randall Thompson's "Fanfare for Chorus" especially commissioned by Schmidt for the Chorus. Other pieces are excerpts from Purcell's "Come Ye Sons of Art Away," Brahms' "Tafellied," Palestrina's "Surgere Amica Mea," Mozart's Cantata K. 108 "Regina Coeli," Vaughan Williams' "In Windsor Forest," and the complete performance of Monteverdi's madrigal, "Hor Ch'el Ciel." Accompanists will be Bernard Kreger '59 and James Armstrong...
...consisted of an almost bewildering array of styles, she shifted in and out with complete ease and sureness. The depth of her musical understanding was illustrated by the modulations of approach within each composer, bringing out the enormous variety possible in a group of Monteverdi, or in a Bach Cantata...
...Brien Nicholas '59, performed an aria in Bach's Cantata No. 41 with a freshness and grace which excelled even her own past performances. The other soloists, Thomas Beveridge '59, Ruth Oeste '58, and Karl Dan Sorensen, also possess very fine voices. The only villains of the evening were the trumpets, particularly the second, who came near to turning the Bach into a shambles...
...with a $3,000 diamond bought by members of the Boulangerie the world over, the guests launched into an exuberant chorus composed for the occasion by Francis Poulenc. "Vive Nadia, the dear Nadia Boulanger, the very dear Nadia, Al-le-lu-jah!" Later, musicians performed another birthday tribute: a cantata by Composer Jean Françaix for five strings, five winds and six-handed piano. Over the bubbly, breakneck music ex-pupils chanted their praise of Nadia. One, made up to look like President René Coty of France, paid the Fourth Republic's tribute; another, costumed like...
...East zone Communists have showered the choir with state prizes and given its directors a free musical hand. Every year 2,000 or so applicants stream into Leipzig for tryouts. Choir members still rehearse five hours a day, learn a new Bach cantata each week, give three public concerts every weekend. State-supported now, the school has at various times been so poor that it was kept going only by flying squads of choristers who wandered through the city singing for alms...