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...DISCUSSION of accurate performance practice for Bach's music has intensified steadily over the past few years. Various organizations lay claims to all manner of historically-precise techniques. The Munich Bach Choir lies somewhere in the center of the spectrum, between the advocates of absolute musical historicity and the traditionalists. The Choir's performance of the B-Minor Mass makes a powerful argument for just the vital elements of Bach's composition with a firm command of standard nineteenth-century technique...
...church, which opened last November and is located in the southwest corner of the old legation quarter. The Mass was celebrated entirely in Latin by the Chinese priest, who stood, gorgeously vested in a green and gold chasuble, with his back to the congregation in the old manner. A choir of one woman and four men sang Latin hymns. Again, the congregation was mostly European, with a sprinkling of Africans from Zambia and Tanzania and a few Chinese, among them a party member who said that he was "just checking...
While some Catholic progressives greeted the new rules as a step in the right direction, however small, outspoken Theologian Hans Kung (Infallible?, Why Priests?) of Germany's Tubingen University was less sanguine. Küng called the regulations "poorly applied cosmetics . . . eyewash for the growing choir of criticism from both clergy and laity." A case in point for Küng's skepticism is one of the Pope's recent episcopal choices, Bishop Johannes Gijsen of the Dutch diocese of Roermond, who was selected over the nominees of the diocesan chapter. Three days after the Vatican announced...
Morrison began to use his voice non-verbally, as an instrument. In most songs he would bring the band down to a groove and then simply scat sing over that groove. "Caravan" had a beautifully timed and syncopated, "doo-doot" scat chorus from the choir, and "Tupelo Honey" had a long scat singing section. The scat singing is an undercurrent, a constant reminder of the building tensions in Morrison's music...
...This band, its members unfortunately anonymous, is as good a group of musicians as Van has ever had to play behind him. They blew tight rock when they had to and, more difficult, knew precisely how to play softly, and to hold the chords for Van's scatting. The choir, one-third of which was Van's wife, Janet, sang gospel backgrounds nicely all evening...