Word: cappella
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...York's music season. Probably no city in the world offers so great a volume or variety of music, although the fact is sometimes obscured in the blasts of publicity for a few glamour names. Performing groups range from the distinguished, amateur Dessoff Choir, specializing in a cappella Renaissance music, to the new, still uneven Contemporary Baroque Ensemble. Some attractions on display in the last fortnight...
...center were Wright and Olgivanna and their daughter lovanna. Around them were 65 apprentices, who happily farmed the vegetables, waited on table and washed the family laundry for the privilege of having a bench in Wright's drafting room. Draftsmen found themselves singing in the a cappella choir of 30 voices, playing in orchestra and quartet, performing with the dance groups. Wright treated them all as extensions of his hand, told them: "You can stay here for years and never touch the bottom, sides, or top of the great principles at work here...
...much more interested in unemployment compensation and public works." By way of showing that he stands second to none in taking care of the folks back home, Mike Mansfield put his great weight behind a $45,000 proposal to send the Flathead County (Mont.) High School's a cappella choir to the international fair in Brussels...
Thesis: the Radcliffe Freshman Chorus singing a cappella. Antithesis: several local instrumentalists playing baroque sonatas. Synthesis: the Chorus and a small instrumental group joining for parts of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater...
Lament for April 15 and Other Modern American Madrigals (Randolph Singers; Composers Recordings, Inc.). Thirteen songs for five a cappella voices, composed by such U.S. composers as Ulysses Kay, Kurt List, Charles Mills, some funny, some atmospheric. The title song is Avery Claflin's setting to music of portions of the federal income-tax instructions (TIME...