Word: concertato
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...Third and Fourth Suites are notable for their employment of the baroque trumpet and baroque tympani (the latter, too, different from its contemporary). The Fourth Suite has three competing choirs (in best concertato style): the strings, oboes and bassoons, and trumpets and tympani. The concept of tympani acting as a bass instrument (as legitimate as bassoon, cello, or violone) is foreign to us; but the particular sound of these drums (partly from the use of ivory mallets without felt) gives them a much brighter tone that blends with the trumpets...
...entire evening of full chorus and orchestra would be a dubious effort on only seven weeks of rehearsal, Schmidt wisely reduced his voices to madrigal size for part of the concert. Not surprisingly, the most sensitive performances came from these smaller ensembles. Monteverdi's Tirsi e Clori, a ballo concertato for two soloists, strings and chorus, was performed with taste and elegance. The solos were handled creditably by Jacqueline Goodspeed and Henry Gibbons...
...Monteverdi's Tirsi e Clori Schmidt properly used a small body of singers. This so-called "ballo concertato" combined a light madrigal style of the Renaissance with an orchestra (harpsichord and strings) and the more impressive dimensions of the Baroque. Since the piece was originally written to be danced, it abounds in strong, bouncy rhythms. Before the chorus begins to sing, the title characters carry on a spirited dialogue, in which conductor Schmidt displayed his fine tenor voice in company with soprano Jean Lunn...
...concert, which is free, will also include choruses from Acis and Galatea by Handel, Flos Campi by Vaughan Williams, and Tirsi and Clori (Ballo Concertato) by Monteverdi. Selections from Rennaisance madrigals and contemporary American music will also be sung. The chorus will be conducted by Professor Harold C. Schmidt of Stanford...
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