Word: cappella
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nurtured in the Metropolitan Opera's grand-opera tradition, found a welcome change in Fasano's creation of an intimate, two-century-old court tradition. They chuckled when Italian Clown Sesto Bruscantini scored a solid single in Cimarosa's 18-minute solo opera Il Maestro di Cappella, and then roared out loud as Bruscantini and Carlo Badioli, an even funnier man, rapped out a two-bass hit with the huffa-buffa La Cambiale di Matrimonio, Rossini's first stage work. This week the troupe will pack the show on their backs for a brief tour...
...America, the New Catholic Encyclopedia was seven years in preparation, took $4,000,000 to produce. It will cost $550 to acquire the set - and may well be worth it. The 15 volumes contain 15,350 pages, 7,500 illustrations, 15 million words, 17,000 articles ranging from "A Cappella" to "Zwinglianism...
...GERALD FINZI: DIES NATALIS (Everest). An opportunity to compare two widely diverging paths in modern vocal music. Hoist is sophisticated and eclectic: his bold Fantasia has a concerto-like role for the organ along with choral and solo sections; in the Psalm, he spins a gossamer a cappella prayer. By contrast, Finzi's quiet music comments on the lyrics, in this case Metaphysical Poet Thomas Traherne's musings on the innocence and beauty of children. Tenor Wilfred Brown's impeccable diction helps to make this a delightfully accessible, intimate performance. The English Chamber Orchestra and soloists, conducted...
...Peaceable Kingdom, for chorus a cappella, dates from 1936, and is probably the best known of his major works. The texts from the Book of Isaiah are as flamboyant as any I've heard; the choruses, and the work as a whole, epitomize some of his most successful ventures. There are eight verses with tremendously varied settings: a simple hymn; a lament that borders on the sublime (and I'd like to shoot the guy that made the open fifth of the final chord into a major triad); songs of Thanks giving with the longest crescendi since Rossini stopped writing...
Homicide is only one of Kirby's quirks. Upstairs he conducts choir practice for a collection of speak-your-weight machines, reasoning that machines that talk ought to be able to sing a cappella. He also dotes on Pavlovian dogs, and his reflexes are conditioned accordingly. "Now he has to have a little ping every time he sets down to a meal," his mother complains, pinging...