Word: capella
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CAPELLA PAOLINA (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). Art Historian Leo Steinberg analyzes two Michelangelo frescoes in this special filmed in the Pauline and Sistine chapels in Rome. Repeat...
...PENNYWHISTLERS: Folksongs of Eastern Europe (Nonesuch). For those who like their folk music ethnic, a group of seven American girls offers a pastiche of infrequently heard items from the banks of the Danube: Bulgarian planting songs, Hungarian love lyrics, Croatian hymns. Many of them are sung a capella-sustained by the septet's own strong harmony...
...CAPELLA PAOLINA (CBS, 10-11 a.m.). A special on two Michelangelo frescoes -The Conversion of St. Paul and The Cru cifixion of St. Peter - in the Pauline Chap el of St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome...
That is why the extraordinarily accurate a capella performance of his Mass (1963) by the Glee Club and Choral Society was a pleasurable emotional experience as well as an impressive display of musicianship. Except for one clunker that occured when the singers failed to listen to each other on the Credo "passus et supultus est" and an octave became a major seventh, the Glee Clubs exhibited a professional command of the difficult intervals and harmonies. Unfortunately, the great energy that was consumed in singing the right notes left nothing for interpretation, and the resulting dynamic inflexibility diminished much...
...director who programs an entire evening of a capella men's singing risks having the absence of variety spoil his effort. To program on top of that the music of a single country is to court danger, since the audience could tire as easily of the similarity of style. It is therefore fortunate that Russian music was put to such a test Friday night at Sanders Theatre. The Church music, with its full harmonies and low basses, stands in such contrast to the soldiers' songs, love ballads, and haunting Cossack melodies that there was sufficient variation to sustain the audience...