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...Lepson holds two forms of transience parallel: that of the open ocean against that of human life.Others among Lepson’s collection—those poems that seem to be more portrait than anything else—are caught up in the concept of mortality. “Motet for Mom” consists purely of fragmented conversations between a daughter and her hospitalized mother. The poem is made all the more powerful for its ambivalence toward the poignant dialogue exchanged between loved ones who will shortly be torn apart from each other. “October...
...rich blend of harmonies and impeccable execution distinguished the concert “Mostly Motets,” presented by the Radcliffe Choral Society and Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum. The night’s religiously inspired motet program displayed the College’s musical talents to its fullest...
Their second selection, Heinrich Isaak's Motet Virgo Prudentissima, seemed by contrast to start off with redemption. In a slower, more contemplative tempo, the choir boys looked ready to shine. Without being drowned out by the older choir, the sopranos and altos united in the production of haunting, luscious strains that, for a fleeting moment, transmogrified Symphony Hall into St. Peter's Basilica. But once the basses and tenors in the older choir joined in, the younger choir boys lost their nerve. This led to technical difficulty between the sopranos and basses. Ideally, their voice parts should have slid over...
Four slightly older girls perform in Mozartiana. They are dressed in black, and at the opening of the ballet they frame Farrell in a mysterious image. The music is Tchaikovsky's setting of a Mozart motet known as the Ave Verum Corpus. The backdrop is the one used throughout the festival, a vaulting of 3,600 translucent tubes, designed by Philip Johnson. (It took 50 men 75 hours to install the 200,000-lb. set.) In Mozartiana, as elsewhere, the play of light on the clear columns gives a spacious harmony to the scene. The tableau is more enigmatic...
Harvard University Choir. A special Lenten service. Bach: Motet No. 5; Purcell: Evening Service music. Free. Sunday, March...