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After retiring in 1972, Merritt continued to research music and publish editions of Janequin and Andrea Gabrieli's works. He also established a music program at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn...
...Clement Janequin's Four Chansons, which greeted the overflow audience after intermission, more than compensated for the Chamber Singers' early misfortunes, however. They were a quartet of jewels that would have enhanced any royal collection. Especially memorable was La Plus Bells de la Ville, a flirtatious ode to the prettiest girl in town. La Chante des Oyseaulx (Song of the Birds), a fantasy that includes imitations of bird sounds, was superb, shimmering with brilliant clusters of sound. Toutes les Nuictz was a translucent ruby, a deep and haunting love song. The Camerata Players also redeemed themselves in the Janequin with...
...Sanders concert, to be broadcast locally on August 15 by WGBH-TV, will include works by Schuts, Byrd, Janequin, Barber and Bach. The Chorus, under the direction of Iva Dee Hiatt, associate Josquin, this concert will be sung on professor of Music and director of choral music at Smith College, will be accompanied by a chamber orchestra drawn from the Cambridge Civic Symphony...
Miss Hiatt has planned the August 15 Sanders concert to display the range of vocal possibilities of a large, mixed chorus. Selections will range from the powerful double chorus and instrumental counterpoint of the Shutz and Bach, to the intimacy of Janequin madrigals by a group of chamber singers, to the modern complexity of Barber's Reincarnations...
...Janequin: Choral Works (the Bach Choral Society of Montreal, conducted by George Little; Vox). The strange, polyphonic songs of the 16th century French composer who pushed musical description to a new high-or low. Stereo fans will be fascinated by two pieces in particular: Le Chant des Oiseaux, in which the chorus twitters and coos, and La Guerre, in which the chorus, without lifting its collective voice beyond a murmur, suggests the confused clamor of the battlefield...