Word: choir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GEES: ODESSA (2 LPs; Atco). There is a nostalgic quality to these inventive, richly melodious ballads, which are sung earnestly, sometimes with a trifle too much vibrato. Sounding occasionally like a wholesome choir of Beatles, this Anglo-Australian quintet is sufficiently international to handle soft rock, country and Western, and songs that sound like folk even if they are not. But while this is their best album, the Bee Gees are sometimes swallowed alive by the lush harmonies of the singing strings in the background...
...daughter and the son of the household. The passion is so indiscriminate and the acting so undisciplined that one half-expects to see the milkman, and perhaps his horse, included in the rutting. But Pasolini has other excesses in mind. When the visitor departs, he leaves behind a shrilling choir of victims. The daughter (Anne Wiazemsky) becomes catatonic; the son, an artist, urinates on his paintings; the wife turns nymphomaniac. The maid becomes a martyr who levitates to prove her sanctity, and the father strips to the buff in a Milan railroad station, then flees to the Dolomites bellowing like...
...GLEE CLUB--Choral Society concert, with the assistance of the Bach Society Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, and St. Paul's Boys Choir, was one of the two finest choral events of the year (the other being the University Chorus's Easter performance of the St. John Passion...
...campaign to back it up. These were all items recorded by Columbia while the Philadelphia still worked for it. Columbia also says it has about 40 more unreleased recordings in its vaults - including all the orchestral works of Brahms, one Bruckner symphony, and two albums with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Says Columbia Artists and Repertory Music Director Thomas Frost: "We have so much material in the can that we can release new records by Ormandy and the Philadelphia regularly for the next five years - and that is exactly what we intend...
...Mormon Tabernacle Choir also received gold records for The Lord's Prayer and Messiah recordings...