Word: choir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could well be the last great Mass ever written. The Society's performance possessed a certain Antarctic charm completely devoid of devotional feeling, but was plunged into obliquy by mispronunciation in the Kyrie (Keer-eiyeh) and the sinusoidal vibrato of the soprano and alto soloists in the Gloria. The choir plodded through the long Credo with sacerdotal vindictiveness but decided to clear up its wooly tone for the exquisite Sanctus. It was on the whole a bloodless performance of an intensely religious work...
STILL SEEKING that ineffable moment. I attended the risorgimiento of the Harvard Glee Club in the annual Harvard-Yale concert. The Yale group began with a thin version of Palestrina's Supplicationes for main chorus and responsive small choir (which joined me in the Tibetan heights of the upper balcony) and proceeded to good performances of Holst's delightful Blacksmith Song and Dowland's beautiful Come Again, Sweet Love. Their part closed with a stupendously tedious arrangement by Fenno Heath of Donne's Death Be Not Proud. The Harvard Glee Club performed a less interesting program except for a mildly...
...smooth muscles and relaxed carriage of a country club athlete, the dark eyes and black, slightly curly hair of a choir boy, the poise and manner of a ship's purser. He grins a lot. -- Dan Jenkins, Sports Illustrated...
...surpassingly beautiful one, it was exceptionally tasteful and engaging. And this was not so much the result of doggedly exhuming every ornament as of pentrating to the irreducible dramatic intention of each composition. The performers were most successful in the movingSong of Simeon, in which a baroque solo choir in the balcony sings a text different from that of the main choir, symbolizing in Schutz's words "the joy of the blessed souls in heaven." TheGloria, a quodlibet of Lutheran chorale melodies was precisely thought out and excellently proportioned among the voices. As for the seven soloists, the men were...
Clowning Around. Samuel David Moore, 33, the son of a Baptist deacon in Miami, got much of his early training in the gospel choir at his father's church. After graduating from high school, he consulted his grandfather, a Baptist minister, about whether to continue as a gospel singer or go into pop music. The old man cited the 100th psalm ("Make a jovful noise unto the Lord") and said: "Whatever noise you're going to make, just be sure you make the best...