Word: messa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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KRESGE AUDITORIUM (MIT). MIT schola Cantorum. Monteverdi: Messa a 4 Voca da Cappella; Lasso: Prophetiae Sybyllarum. Tickets: $2. Sunday, December...
...wolf starts howling, like Franco Corelli in Verdi's 'Di quella pira' from 11 Trovatore, the rest of the wolves join in, as in the choral sections of 'Di quella pira.' " He found that the best wolf virtuosos "start pianissimo, swell to a messa di voce to the sixth above, hold it sweetly and purely, then perhaps embellish to the upper partial before going down to a pianissimo and trailing off on an inconclusive microtonality near the tonic." Although some wolves have a range of more than an octave, Schonberg noted that "they...