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...University Choir is an outstanding choral group. Their performance of the Bach Cantata No. 80, Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, should be well worth hearing. The Fisk organ in Appleton Chapel is particularly suited to this sort of program...
Purcell: Ceremonial Music (Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge; the English Chamber Orchestra, George Guest conductor; Argo, $5.95). Ranging from the Te Deum and Jubilate, written for St. Cecilia's Day in 1694, to the funeral music for the burial of Queen Mary a year later, this is some of Purcell's-and England's-most eloquent music. The performances, authentically scored to include a consort of sackbuts (precursors of the trombone), display taste as well as a flair for the composer's bold, often harsh harmonic writing...
Palestrina: The Song of Songs (Prague Madrigal Choir; Miroslav Venhoda conductor; Vanguard/ Bach Guild, $2.98). The great Renaissance polyphonist, best known for soaring church works like the Pope Marcellus Mass, here took his text, somewhat uncharacteristically, from Solomon's highly sensuous biblical verses: "A bundle of myrrh is my well beloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts." The result: one of Palestrina's two or three loveliest works, sung movingly by the Czech performers...
Similarly, the Watts Industrial Park, a 54-acre conglomeration of 24 firms. 22 of which are nonwhite owned and which make products as diverse as truck seats and choir robes, owes its existence largely to Government loans. Located on a site where rioting occurred eight years ago, the park provides employment for 1,200 workers; sales total $25 million to $30 million a year...
...John Wilson), is assigned by Shakespeare to a young boy, who serenades Mariana in the garden of her "moated grange." Instead of a solo ayre, John Morris has composed a pleasant madrigal for ten singers, which is later reprised offstage and, at the end, played by a brass choir, to round off a dissonant play with harmonious concords...