Word: chorales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stand Up & Sing. Tne music of Nabucco was different from anything the earlier giants of Italian opera-Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti-had ever attempted. The choral writing was stronger, the general style more impassioned. Already Verdi was using his subsequently famous technique of writing sprightly, almost gay tunes for the grimmest situations and somehow getting away with it. Nabucco's weakness is that it has in its score little dramatic unity and that it tends to bog down in mere declamation ("It's one of those stand-up-there-and-sing operas," says Baritone Cornell MacNeil...
...includes something for everyone and is designed to illustrate the versatility of the Harvard Glee Club. The first side includes a collection of traditional "Harvard" songs ranging from football songs and glees to Fair Harvard itself. Side two is labeled, properly, "a short but representative concert offering, sampling the choral literature from the Fifteenth Century to the present...
...composed on weekends, during his lunch hours and en route from New York to his weekend retreat in Connecticut. Somehow, he turned out a tremendous quantity of work, only a fraction of which has survived (five symphonies, some violin and piano music, more than 120 songs, and the fine choral work, Lincoln the Great Commoner...
Harold C. Schmidt, professor of Music at Stanford University, will direct the Chorus. G. Wallace Woodworth, who conducted the Harvard Glee Club for 25 years and the Radcliffe Choral Society for 33 years, will return from Tanglewood as guest conductor for the Handel selections. Woodworth is known for his television series. "Two Centuries of the Symphony...
...Sutherland, Peter Pears, Owen Brannigan, David Galliver; Philomusica of London with the St. Anthony Singers, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult; London). A slightly cut version of the masque that became the most popular of Handel's works in his own lifetime. The score is fresh and frothy, the choral numbers a wonder of vocal crosshatching, and the performance controlled and clear. Soprano Sutherland trills her lines with transparent ease...