Word: choraler
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...albums are excellent: Sopranos Suzanne Danco and Pierette Alarie (Epic), Maria Stader and Rita Streich (Decca). Despite the good singing, the recordings suffer from the opera's basic structural fault. Groundbreaker though he was in his own day, Composer Gluck stuck too closely to wearisome, undramatic alternation of choral passages and recitatives, thus kept his often lovely work from stirring into full-bodied life...
...organizational meeting will be held tonight at 7 in Sever 11 for everyone interested in singing in the Summer School Chorus, according to Harold C. Schmidt, Director of Choral Music at Stanford University, who will direct the chorus again this year...
...Monday, July 22, the series will sponsor a Choral Society Concert at M.I.T.'s Kresge Auditorium...
...deathbed scene, in which the painter's death is announced by the offstage firing of a revolver and by the slow illumination of his paintings, ranged about the dark walls like sun-filled windows. Although the opera tends to bog down in a weary series of recitatives, the choral writing is marked by a lush, dark-hued beauty, and the hectic orchestral writing is daubed with great splashes of instrumental color as dazzling and at times as savage as Van Gogh's own swirling canvases. A critical success, Van Gogh has already brought Kodalli nibbles from the Vienna...
...heroic popular leaders of the national uprising against the invading Poles in 1611-13. With that party-line emendation, the opera's melodramatic plot has been preserved intact. Weak in leading roles (Bass Miro Changalovich and Soprano Maria Glavachevich), the present version is thunderously impressive in its choral and ensemble passages, sung by the Yugoslav Army Chorus...