Word: madrigale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Given a table, tuning fork, piles of music and the Sestetto Italiano Luca Marenzio one has a delightful evening of Italian madrigals from the late sixteenth century. Add Sanders Theatre and last night's smallish but enthusiastic audience, and Adriano Banchieri's madrigal comedy La Barca di Venezia per Podova...
Il Dissonante, as abbot Banchieri was known to the academic world of his day, did not hesitate to make a single pivot note the sole point of continuity in a total shift of harmony. Daring in his time, such transitions still surprise the traditionally trained ear. Banchieri also jabbed his...
Only skillful vocal ensembles singing in the contrapuntal style of the sixteenth century Italian madrigal can share the tone of the whole concert: fluid, flexible, continuous. And although occasionally their pitches wandered and attacks scattered, in their masterful moments the madrigal singers made a good case for a revival of...
Triteness and cliches plague modern choral music--patriotic pieces especially--and Session's Turn, O Libertad in particular. Complex accompaniment and dissonance cannot hide its dullness and essentially barber-shop harmonies. Such was not so with Elliot Forbes's madrigal Music whose harmonies seemed amazingly fresh and lacking in cliches...
It must be admitted that the Glee Club performs the more "classical" numbers with greater skill than it does Ten Thousand Men of Harvard. This, of course, is attributable to the quality of the music, and it would be ridiculous to sing the Veritas March with the same delicacy necessary...