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...group in these two scenes is called Musica Sacra. The conductor is a hearty, frustrated baseball player and onetime concert organist named Richard Westenburg. Musica Sacra is a time whose idea has come. That is, it embodies a period and style of music-the great sacred, choral works, especially of the baroque-that few before had been able to move from church choirs and amateur choruses into a professional concert series. In the past three years, the group (which works with a nucleus of 29 singers and 28 instrumentalists) has given notable performances of such works as Mozart...
Tippett's score-dense, compact, intricate-rumbles darkly with violence and glistens with unexpected color. The choral scenes capture the shout of the mob. The solo lines sometimes soar in daring melismas, sometimes settle into softly swooping lyricism...
Verdl's "Requlem"--Harvard choral groups and Harvard--Radcliffe Orchestra, Sanders Theater...
Marvin was at a conference of choral directors in St. Louis this weekend and could not be reached for comment...
Conant agreed. "There are a lot of choral techniques that are just exciting that Jim is using. I think that when they are applied as a whole, the effect is going to be electifying...