Word: choraler
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...most of the staging proves too distracting for the weak company to support. Noticeably lacking are introductory overtures before either of the acts. Ordinarily such music helps the audience enter into a nineteenth-century frame of mind. Instead, after a brief warm-up, the opera begins with a riotous choral entrance...
...Royal Palace in Amsterdam last May, Glass's newest music-theater piece, The Photographer, was premiered at a command performance for Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands. And in Chicago this summer, 10,000 listeners at Grant Park lustily cheered a performance of Adams' powerful 1981 choral piece, Harmonium. "When I was a student," says Adams, "I thought that if I wrote something that was attractive there must be something wrong with it. Now I feel there are a lot of people out there actually waiting for my next piece...
John Nelson, 40, of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Formerly a choral conductor, Nelson has an easy, fluent way with some of the grandest pieces in the repertory, like the Berlioz Requiem. He first came to attention when he organized an uncut performance of Berlioz's sprawling opera Les Troyens at Carnegie Hall in 1972 and then conducted the work the following year at the Met. An imaginative programmer, he has championed offbeat works like Shostakovich's Symphony No. 15, the composer's enigmatic symphonic valedictory...
...Carl Orff, 86, German composer who turned his back on complex modern styles to fashion a highly personal idiom of folklike melodies and elemental rhythms; in Munich. In Carmina Burana, a 1936 cantata based on writings collected by a 13th century Benedictine monk, Orff used simple, vigorous tunes and choral chants to celebrate the joys of food, drink and love. He pared down to an even more stylized primitivism in his Antigonae (1947-48) and Oedipus der Tyrann...
Even extracurricular groups could take part in the events of The Weekend. Choral societies aod orchestras could be compared, conservative clubs and leftist organizations could compete for the title of "most extremist...