Word: choraler
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Lowell Houses was fortunate to have the services of Howard Brown as choral director. He turned what has sometimes in the past been a rather slipshod group into an ensemble of the highest caliber--always in tune, enunciating clearly, precise in all entrances. And conductor Michael Greenebaum stirred the orchestra to level of performance distinguished by its accuracy and warmth...
...lovers heard something that was avowedly "different": the beginning of a three-day festival of music by Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672). It was staged by Conductor William H. Reese of the Haverford College Glee Club, partly because he wanted to avoid the "usual mishmash and hodgepodge" of choral programs, partly because from the time he was in college himself, he has been a stout Schütz admirer...
Composer Schütz was one of music's 17th century giants*; known as "the father of German music," he composed the first German opera (Dafne), and was the man who managed to fuse solid German choral counterpoint with Italy's exciting new "concerted" style that combined voices and instruments. Schütz's music has long been shadowed by Bach, but once modern ears are accustomed to it, its impact is dramatic as well as spiritual...
...night in the Fogg Museum Courtyard, was superbly planned to express the spirit and significance of the religious season. The principal work was the oratorio The Seven Words of Christ on the Cross by Heinrich Schuetz, a German composer who lived a century before Bach. The opening and closing choral ensembles are an exhortation to think upon the Seven Words on this anniversary of the Crucifixion as a means of sharing the anguish of Christ. The body of the oratorio is part of the passion given in narrative and dramatic form by five soloists. After the Seven Words...
Thomas D. Perry, Jr., new manager of the Symphony, said Wednesday that the College choral group is expected to join in at least one of the B.S.O.'s nationally broadcast concerts next year. This would continue the singing group's 30-year tradition of giving joint performances with the local orchestra...