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Monteverdi's Vespers, published in 1610 as a group of items in a collection of miscellany, are unified both liturgically and musically. Yet they have all the variety and color of a patchwork quilt. The fact that the University Choir chose to perform them in St. Paul's Catholic Church in its fall concert Sunday night contributed to making the piece a spectacle. The Vespers form a very complex whole--they consist of a response, five psalms, a hymn, and the Magnificat, together with corresponding plainsong melodies which precede and follow each movement except the hymn. In addition, each...
...whole, Conductor John Ferris and his choir succeeded in bringing coherence out of this complexity, primarily by maintaining a consistently high level of precision. The choir's tone was excellently blended, and its diction surprisingly good. St. Paul's Men's Schola provided the plainsong from the balcony, to the great advantage of the total effort...
...choruses right next to each other. Also, the psalm tune in the Nisi Dominus was disappointingly inaudible. But these are among a very small group of disappointments in what was in every respect a tasteful and powerful performance, particularly impressive in the freedom from meter that the choir attained...
...Equally awe-inspiring is the 83-ft.-long assembly hall with an immense 16th century Italian carved-walnut ceiling and a 16th century French stone mantelpiece for which Hearst outbid even John D. Rockefeller. Another favorite is the 27-ft.-high refectory, a monastic dining hall, lined with cathedral choir stalls and hung with 22 Sienese banners...
Today there will be a service in Memorial Church at 2 p.m. Requiem masses will be held at St. Mary's Church, Melrose, tomorrow at 7:30 a.m., and at St. Paul's Church, Cambridge, Thursday, at 5 p.m. Ohiri sang in the choir at St. Paul...