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RENAISSANCE MUSIC is a beautiful remnant of a lost world. There may be no progress in the arts, but there is motion, and we have moved almost hopelessly far from the moment of rebirth. To communicate that distant vision to modern listeners is a difficult task, but the Glee Club under F. John Adams has made Renaissance music their specialty, and last Saturday they reawakened it for an audience in St. Paul's Church...
...GLEE CLUB chose a concert of Lamentations, showing a variety of Renaissance approaches to a particular problem. Like the Magnificat section from Luke, the Lamentations of Jeremiah were a favorite text because of their outstanding beauty and emotional depth. In fact, the Lamentation remains a standard church form for use around Good Friday. Jeremiah's sense of suffering captures the appropriate Christian feeling at that time of year: "Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow." In an age when religion and music were inextricably bound, many of the great masters created vocal settings that rival...
...think that Renaissance music is esoteric and boring here is your chance to find out differently. On Saturday, the Glee Club will present a concert of Renaissance Lamentations which should continue their long tradition of subtle and moving performances of this music...
Renaissance Lamentations including works of Byrd, Brumel, and Palestrina; Harvard Glee Club, F. John Adams, conductor; St Paul's Church...
...EASY to play Mozart badly, Symmetrical phrases and harmonies that sound simple to most modern cars can become lifeless in unskilled hands. Even for performers with talent and enthusiasm there are problems, at the Harvard and Smith Glee Clubs found out last Saturday in their Sanders performance of Mozart's Grand Mass in C-Minor...