Word: handling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...program opened with the Men's Glee Club alone singing two Renaissance motets by Jacob Handl. A small soli chorus sang from the balcony; and, considering the difficulties that such division presents, the precision of the performance was laudable. The power that a men's Glee Club must have to be really effective was missing, however, and the pieces chosen were short and of little interest. Those who favor the pre-Classical could again complain of having been unfairly ignored...
...freezes the action, speeds it up, reveals the texture of Morgan's fancies by inserting film clips of Tarzan and of the original King Kong roaring approval at Fay Wray. The film's funniest scenes, though, are the earthy encounters between Morgan and his dear Ma (Irene Handl), a dotty old Red square who refuses to destalinize and can't imagine what her late husband would have thought, seeing their son a class traitor among all those Mayfair types. "He wanted to shoot the royal family," she fusses, "and put everyone who had been to public school...
Other works on the program include Omnes Gentes by Jacob Handl; Psalm 84, by Heinrich Schutz; and two motets, Ich Lasse Dich Nicht, by J.C. Bach, and Warum ist Das Licht Gegeben, by Brahms. The small chamber chorus will offer four settings of the Ave Maria by Joaquin des Pres, Schutz, Verdi, and Stravinsky, in addition to the Trois Chansons by Debuzsy...
...Bach's Cantata 196. Harvard sang the first with an admirable attention to pitch (except for an occasional flattening in the tenors) and ended up particularly well with a vigorous Gloria Patri. Yale used a semi-chorus in the balcony in its clean and well-paced rendition of the Handl. And both groups merged to perform the Bach in a competent, if not inspiring, manner...