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...music, and the few exceptions received the weakest performances. Brahms' intensely sorrowful "Warum ist das Licht gegeben" sounded disjointed, with the seemingly endless phrases of the first section losing momentum every measure or two; only the final chorale generated a genuine mood. The men's performance of Schubert's "Gesang der Geister uber den Wassern" showed complete insensitivity to Goethe's colorful text...
Stockhausen's Gesang der Jünglinge (West German Radio-Cologne Electronic Studios; Deutsche Grammophon) comes on like the launching of a thousand spaceships and fades out like a souped-up sound track for Hitchcock's The Birds; it happens to be the most communicative example of electronic music yet recorded. Midst a welter of high-decibel cacophony, the voice of a boy soprano speaks...
Different flaws appeared when the choruses separated. The Glee Club's rendition of Schubert's Gesang Der Geister Uber Den Wassern handled admirably the contrasts of stanzas, but the tenors had a thin tone and blended poorly. The five piece string orchestra did have trouble with intonation, but it was a welcome addition...
...major works on the program, jointly performed by the two choruses, were di Lasso's Penitential Psalm, 'De Profundis,' Beethoven's 'Elegischer Gesang,' Op. 118, and Schubert's Mass in G Major. The worst-performed, Schubert's Mass, written at 18, suffered from an execrable accompaniment by a small string ensemble. In their solo passages, the strings sounded uniformly out of tune, weak, uncertain, and uncoordinated Beneath the chorus, they could only muddle the texture a little, but almost did derange the pitch and rhythm of the three excellent soloists. Sure and accurate, Tenor David Griffith, Soprano Emily Romney...
...program of tonight's concert will be as follows: Kyrie from the Mass in B Minor Johann Sebastian Bach Elegischer Gesang Ludwig Van Beethoven Finale "Canticle of the Sun" from San Franceso D'Assisi G. Francesco Malipiero Pour les Funerailles d'un Soldat Lili Boulanger Pie Jesu Lili Boulanger Psaume: Du Fond de l'Abime Lili Boulanger Psaume XXIV Lili Boulanger...