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...Choir. The University Choir gave a spectacular performance of the Bach Cantata No. 131 last Sunday. The Motet they will sing this Sunday afternoon should be very good. The Motets are to singers what string quartets are to violinists: a form more easily appreciated by performers than by listeners. Just a warning to those who might expect to hear in the motet the more varied timbres of a cantata orchestration. --Kenneth Hoffman...
...soloists, unfortunately, were considerably less impressive than the choir. Both women soloists sang with wobbly gusto, though none too steady in pitch. Tenor Gartside sounded forced and dry while bass Hester, the best of the four, masterfully sang his solo at the beginning of the Agnus...
...outer movements were better done than the Credo or the Sanctus, the former being sloppy, and perhaps too demanding for the Choir, and the latter featuring the quartet of soloists and a long violin solo which was drabbly executed by Mr. Brink...
...when Beethoven, never a particularly graceful vocal composer, had long been deaf, the Missa Solemnis reflects its composer's implacable unwillingness to make allowances for performers' limitations. The soprano part, abounds with sustained Forte. As and B flats. Often called upon to sing Fortissimo for long passages, Adams's choir coped with their hard-to-negotiate vocal lines courageously, and by and large, successfully. The balance was usually fairly good, with the men tending to outweigh the women at times. A large measure of the success of this performance was due to the sensitivity with which the choir responded...
Altogether this was a fine performance, successful because of the sincerity of the conductor and the choir, and sincerity is the essence of this great religious work...