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Vaughn Williams: Flos Campi (Francis Tursi, viola; Cornell A Cappella Chorus; orchestra conducted by Robert Hull; Concert Hall). An attractive musical evocation of The Song of Solomon, in which the viola's alto voice sings of Oriental love with considerable dark passion, while the chorus sings wordless syllables...
Philadelphia's Dennis Cardinal Dougherty had been the persuader. Two years ago he presented the Pope with a Wurlitzer for his Cappella Matilda, one of the small chapels in the pontifical apartments. When the Pope seemed pleased with it, the Congregation of Rites voted to "tolerate" one in St. Peter's. After the new organ's debut, most of the Congregation seemed tolerably pleased...
Professor French deserves the highest praise for training the chorus in behavior, which was sufficiently indifferent to the action on stage, and for precise cooperation. The hymn-like a cappella sections of the finale were perfectly beautiful. But Malcolm Holmes, the conductor, cannot be given such plaudits. Although the orchestra showed its capabilities, he failed on several attacks and seldom succeeded in subduing the instrumentalists in time to get the soloists' first phrases...
Singing was best during the many duets and quartets. Particularly well done was one a cappella quartet in the second act, which at all times was in perfect pitch, with each voice delicately balanced...
...Literally "in the church style," a cappella today means choral music unaccompanied by in struments...