Word: dufay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That he had no recordings of Des Prés or Dufay...
...Choral Society seemed beautifully trained, especially when they sang softly, but their interpretation of early music, such as Dufay's Magnificat in the Eighth Mode, was overly romantic. They were better in interesting contemporary pieces by Martinu and Harris. Elizabeth Kalkhurst was the fine soprano soloist...
...works, all written in the period 1450-1600, included pieces by Dunstable, Dufay, Isaak, Senfl, Taverner, Janequin, Marenzio, Dowland, and the long-lived and prolific Anonymous. Some items were well-known; others were probably performed in this country for the first time...
...fourteen solo songs, sung by soprano Anne Hollander, tenor Frank Davidoff and baritone Robert Simon, included examples of medieval French minstrelsy, with their German, Italian and English counterparts, plus accompanied songs by such later masters as Machaut, Dufay and Binchois...
...program. The presence of works by Byrd, Bach, and Milhaud is, of course, directly attributable to Doc's revolutionizing the scope of collegiate glee clubs. Serious music of this sort, with difficulties for listeners as well as performers, is now an expected and fundamental part of any choral concert. Dufay's Gloria in Excelsis Deo was, for me, the high point of the evening. It pushes forward to the "Amen" with rhythmic ferocity--the strong beats of each phrase pile on top of one another, one tension is resolved by another, and the general excitement lasts even through the quieter...