Word: choraler
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Berkshire Festival (Tues. 8:30 p.m., ABC). Serge Koussevitzky conducts Beethoven's Ninth (Choral) Symphony...
Contradiction. In White Plains, N.Y., Furman F. Fordham led a choral group through Nobody Knows de Trouble I've Seen, was presently arrested backstage on a paternity charge...
...second concert of the Harvard Symposium on Music Criticism offered last night in the Memorial Church a program of three lengthy choral works commissioned for the occasion. These were, in the order of their performance: a "Last Judgement" by Paul Hindemith; a set of excerpts from Virgil's "Georgies", set to music under the title of "La Terra" by Gian-Francesco Malipiero; and the Genesis account of creation, entitled by its composer, Aaron Copland, "In the Beginning." All three were performed to a miraculous perfection by New York's Collegiate Chorale, under the direction of Robert Shaw. Nell Tangeman sang...
Aaron Copland's "In the Beginning" was the most warmly received of the three commissioned works. It is a simple piece, consisting largely of recitative choral chant and of solos in arioso form. Some of the more extended choral passages are in two widely-spaced parts only. A few are more compact. The English declamation, though utterly clear, is not rhythmically idiomatic. It resembles rather Gregorian chant as sung by the Benedictine monks at Solesmes, except that the melodic intervals are neither proximate nor melismatic, lying chiefly between the fourth and the ninth. This constant skipping around is not unpleasant...
...Sanders Theatre; chairman, Alfred Frankenstein. "The Critiest Nature of a Work of Art"-Edgar Wind; "The Performer as Critle"-Olga Samaroff; "The Art of Judging Music". Virgil Thomson 4:00 o'clock. Meeting for discussion of papers read at the morning session. 6:15 o'clock-Concert of Choral Music in Memorial Church: The Collegiate Chorale, Robert Shaw, Conductor; New compositions: Aaron Copland, "In the Beginning" for chorus a cappela and mezzo soprano solo; Paul Hindemith, "Apparebit Repentino Dies" for chorus and 11 brass instruments; G. Francesco Malipiero, "La Terra" from Virgil's "Georgias" for chorus and organ...