Word: gabrielli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cello is the big, booming baritone of the violin family, and it takes a young and husky man to play it. From 17th-century Italian Domenico Gabrielli to 20th-century Russian Gregor Piatigorsky, successful cellists have been men of brawn. Lesser cellists, like Composer Jacques Offenbach, Composer Victor Herbert, and Conductor Arturo Toscanini, have often become famous for other things than cello playing. But the greatest cellists have usually spent a whole lifetime taming the thick strings and finger-defying dimensions of their instruments. Such were France's owl-faced Jean Louis Duport (1749-1819), Germany's muscular...
...Fogg Art Museum will be the scene of a concert by the Bach Cantata Club this evening, with G. W. Woodworth '24 as conductor. The program offers selections from five composers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and includes Giovanni Gabrielli, Heinrich Schutz, and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina...
...concert opens with "Jubiltate Deo" by Gabrielli, arranged for an eight part chorus. Then follows another piece of Gabrielli's, "Benedictus," for three choirs. The program then proceeds through the works of Schutz, Scarlatti, Da Palestrina, and Carissimi. The final number, "Jephthah" an Oratorio, will be rendered by three soloiste, Amy Browne Townsend, Naney Loring, and James H. Townsend...