Word: cappella
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...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...
EVENING BELLS AND OTHER RUSSIAN FOLK SONGS (Capitol). Dark nostalgia dished out by Metropolitan Opera tenor, Nicolai Gedda, with the help of the Cappella Russian Male Chorus and some balalaikas. "Gedda was born in Sweden of a Russian father, and he sings of the snow-swept steppes, the willows and the fields of rye like one of the dispossessed...
...first première, a Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, played by Benny Goodman and Leonard Bernstein, had the misfortune of being the marquee come-on for an all-Poulenc concert that included some vintage works-the beautiful Fiançailles pour Rire song cycle, the lovely a cappella Motets. The sonata's first movement is nervously melodic, the second drowsily romantic, the third merely gymnastic; nowhere does the music lead the two instruments into the tense conversation the form requires. The piano simply accompanies the clarinet, as in a coloratura song, and the clarinet does little more than...
...Where the Bible speaks, we speak; where the Bible is silent, we are silent," says Hollywood Minister Harris Goodwin. The churches accept only the authority of Scripture -but they leave each member free to interpret Scripture as he chooses. Their five "avenues of worship" are singing (but always a cappella: the Bible does not authorize instruments), praying, communion (taken every Sunday), preaching and giving...