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...tenor-pianist-combine all three styles. They prefer to "take it apart and lay it on the table." When they put it together again it comes out something that might be called "distilled" gospel-a style that forgoes the screaming, stamping frenzies common to many a small church choir but that retains the slogging, sanctified beat of jazz and rhythm 'n' blues. As a close-harmony quartet, the Grandisons exude a curiously mingled air of sex and sanctity...
Singing is the opposite of Rath's strictured bourgeois life, and it comes to symbolize his rebellion against society. But he fails natively to distinguish between different types of singing; the voices of a boys choir streaming through an open window affect him in essentially the same way as Dietrich's contralto tone. The crudeness of his ear (that is, his immaturity) compels Rath unknowingly to choose total degradation in place of drab respectability...
Munch never let Bruckner's rhetoric get out of hand. He controlled the volume and balance so well that the work built up to its most massive cannonade of sound at the very end and the removal of one choir, say the brass, did not weaken the motion of the other parts. Chorus, orchestra and soloists blended easily, the trumpets and horns penetrating the luminous tone of the chorus but never over-powering it. The chorus's enunciation was perfect throughout. As in the Faure, here there was no schmalz, and Richard Burgin's violin solo in the Aeterna...
...photography combine to produce a sufficiently convincing portrayal of simple men at war, as when the terrified colt stumbles about the battlefield, the film gives an effective picture of life dancing innocently with death. But the attempts at artistry tend to be as heavy handed as the choir that wades in when the wind blows across the steppes...
SERVICE OF MUSIC. The University Choir, directed by John Ferris, University Organist and Choirmaster, assisted by the Bach Society Orchestra will participate in a Palm Sunday evening service of music that will include a performance of Bach's Cantata 131, Aus der Tiefe, and two motets by son Johann Cristoph. Memorial Church; 8:30 P.M. Open to the public...