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...faithful, tragic, Polish Christmas, kolendy and all. Parent and producer of this ceremony (from WJR, Detroit) was young Father Edward Majeske, director of the Detroit Roman Catholic Archdiocesan Organists Guild, and famed interpreter of Polish liturgical music. His cast: 24 youths of the Schola Cantorum of the Polish seminary of S. S. Cyril & Methodius. Their best-known kolenda, Wsrod Nocnej Ciszy, in Father Majeske's translation...
...Impressionist composer of small-scale, poetic pieces for orchestra, a sort of minor Ravel. Last week, Manhattan music-lovers were jolted into rating Delius many notches higher. His 33-year-old Mass of Life, given a belated U. S. premiere by Conductor Hugh Ross and the Schola Cantorum, proved the outstanding event of the concert season so far, revealed its composer in a new and very different light. No impressionist miniature, the Mass of Life required the booming efforts of a gigantic chorus, four solo singers and a full symphony orchestra, moved tellingly from climax to climax, invited comparison with...
Died. Kurt Schindler, 53, composer and conductor, founder and for 17 years leader of Manhattan's famed Schola Cantorum; after long illness; in Manhattan...
...week in Manhattan Bloch's faith and eloquence were manifested again in the U. S. premiere of his Avodath Hakodesh (Sacred Service), a setting for the liturgical texts used in the Hebrew temple. Composer Bloch conducted the performance, given by the 250 choristers of the New York Schola Cantorum, 80 members of the Philharmonic-Symphony and Baritone Friedrich Schorr of the Metropolitan Opera who acted as cantor. Bloch appeared clean-shaven and smiling, changed much from the harassed-looking. black-bearded man whom New Yorkers remembered. But Bloch's strength had not gone with his beard. He spread...
...time along with the regular conductor. With a fervor and concentration worthy of the music Arturo Toscanini gave the Missa Solemnis last week its first performance by the New York Philharmonic, the first he has ever conducted. For the occasion he had 250 choristers from the New York Schola Cantorum and four expert soloists-Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg, Contralto Sigrid Onegin, Tenor Paul Althouse, Basso Ezio Pinza. Toscanini sang croakingly along with them but there were no complaints. The little Italian had never seemed so inspired as in the exalted Gloria, the prayerful Agnus...