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...have just wound up a highly successful month-long Mozart Festival at Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall under the sponsorship of Lincoln Center. Skeptics would have considered Mozart box-office suicide during a dreary New York summer. Yet the festival presented 26 consecutive concerts featuring more than 100 orchestra, chamber and solo pieces-all without top-name performers. At a maximum of $3 a seat, Philharmonic Hall got 54,000 admissions that blossomed into 26 delighted audiences...
...three madrigals were Thomas Morley's "Phyllis I fain would die now," Mein Schifflein lief in wilden Meer by Johann Schein, and the two-part madrigal Altri canti di Marte by Claudio Monteverdi. They were sung under the direction of Mr. Schmidt by the Chamber Chorus. The Chamber Chorus, which is made up of a small portion of the Summer School Chorus, produces an over-all sound which, while generally excellent, sometimes becomes a bit too rich and developed to permit the listener to savor the true flavor of this type of music. The actual interpretation of the music -- balancing...
Shure has been giving a seminar this summer in the peformance of chamber music...
...Chamber music concerts scheduled to be given by students of Leonard Shure this Wednesday and Friday have been moved from the Busch-Reisinger Museum to Paine Hall...
Sonic Tonic. Since the enclosed interior of an auto serves as a kind of reverberating chamber, the sound envelops the listener as though he were sitting in the middle of the New York Philharmonic cello section. Indeed, the sound is so all-encompassing that, with the windows closed and the volume turned up to peak levels, it is difficult to tell if the horns are playing 1812 Overture or "Look out!" Though Safety Crusader Ralph Nader labels the tapes as "Just another step toward insulating the driver completely from the outside," the National Safety Council believes that stereo played...