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...second night of the weekend music festival was given over to Monteverdi's Coronation of Poppea. This opera, written over two centuries ago, is a masterpiece, and remains the earliest opera performed with any frequency. Saturday night's production by the American Opera Society shocked some musical purists by its orchestral realization, which included the use of a piano, and by some drastic cutting. Within its limits, however, the production was highly competent. The orchestra sat in the middle of the Sanders stage, while the singers, in modern evening dress, sang on all sides of it. Aside from a reluctance...
...American Opera Society will sing Monteverdi's "Coronation of Poppea" tomorrow night at 8:30 in Sanders Theater. The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, will give a concert at 3 p.m. on Sunday at Sanders Theater, consisting of Beethoven's First Symphony, Ernest Bloch's Concerto Grosso and Symphony Number 2 by Walter H. Piston, Walter Biglow Rosen Professor of Music...
...Monteverdi's Tirsi e Clori Schmidt properly used a small body of singers. This so-called "ballo concertato" combined a light madrigal style of the Renaissance with an orchestra (harpsichord and strings) and the more impressive dimensions of the Baroque. Since the piece was originally written to be danced, it abounds in strong, bouncy rhythms. Before the chorus begins to sing, the title characters carry on a spirited dialogue, in which conductor Schmidt displayed his fine tenor voice in company with soprano Jean Lunn...
...group of madrigals and chansons, performed with a semichorus, went very well save for a couple of imprecise entrances. Outstanding was Monteverdi's Dorinda, with its tortured Mannerist harmonies. "The Promise of Living," from Copland's opera The Tender Land (1953), went far better than on the Chorus' telecast, owing to the use of more singers and rehearsals. The opera was not considered a success; but the criticism was aimed at the libretto and dramatic structure. The music was always warm and limpid...
...concert, which is free, will also include choruses from Acis and Galatea by Handel, Flos Campi by Vaughan Williams, and Tirsi and Clori (Ballo Concertato) by Monteverdi. Selections from Rennaisance madrigals and contemporary American music will also be sung. The chorus will be conducted by Professor Harold C. Schmidt of Stanford...