Word: chorales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beethoven: Christ on the Mount of Olives (Jan Peerce, Maria Stader and Otto Wiener, soloists; the Vienna Academy Chorus and State Opera Orchestra conducted by Hermann Scherchen; Westminster). Put a few dozen voices anywhere under a choral director and they're apt to belt out the rousing final chorus of this oratorio; but its starkly eloquent arias are seldom heard. Singing Beethoven's Jesus, Tenor Peerce builds to a marvelous anguish, which unfortunately tends to increase when he is coping with high notes...
...repertory of 1,200 numbers goes from spirituals to Bach, Beethoven and Mendelssohn. Backed up by the 10,000-pipe tabernacle organ, with Veteran Organists Alexander Schreiner or Frank Asper, the choir, nicknamed "the singing Saints," has a weight and body unexcelled in choral sound. But "we have not let this become a canned thing," says Director Condie, and he often explores more dissonant modern music. Still, his favorite is a hymn written by one who went with Brigham Young's wagon train, William Clayton, while the prairie winds blew about...
...Sanders concert, to be broadcast locally on August 15 by WGBH-TV, will include works by Schuts, Byrd, Janequin, Barber and Bach. The Chorus, under the direction of Iva Dee Hiatt, associate Josquin, this concert will be sung on professor of Music and director of choral music at Smith College, will be accompanied by a chamber orchestra drawn from the Cambridge Civic Symphony...
...quibble-headed rockets. How dare NBC say that Western influences had helped shape the new Palace of Congresses? It's a fact, said NBC; and indeed, the palace looks as if it might have been designed by someone called Mies van der Red. And the lyrics of the choral singing, griped the Russians, could be translated to mean "Long live the Czars!" NBC shrugged. The Soviets had supplied the choir...
Cole, who has had several plays produced at the Loeb experimental theatre, called Perera's score "highly melodic--unlike many modern operas." Perera, himself, has extensive experience in composition, and several of his choral works have been performed by the University Choir...