Word: motet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nothing like a wedding in the family. In Britain last week it seemed as if everyone was as busy as a bridesmaid, preparing to marry off the Princess this month. Each one had his own job. Dr. William McKie, the organist at Westminster Abbey, had a special motet to compose for the ceremony. Sir Arnold Bax, Master of the King's Musick, was working out three trumpet fanfares. Painters were sprucing up Buckingham Palace, which still showed the ravages of war. Electricians were studying ways & means to bathe The Mall with light on the great night...
...Constantini and a setting for chorus of the 134th psalm by Bach's contemporary, Sweelink. The 18th century is represented by a beautiful chorus from Gluck's "Orpheus." The two modern choral works to be sung are unusual arrangements. "Mal" Holmes has turned the organ accompaniment of Mendelssohn's motet "Laudati Pueri" into a rich orchestral background, while the other modern piece, the "Valse Nobles" of Schubert, was an arranger's field day. First written by Schubert as a set of piano waltzes it was later fitted out with an original obligato for female voices by a brilliant and unpronounceable...
...Sanders Theatre concert this year features on the first half of the program a collection of English elegaic music from different periods. Starting with a Byrd motet, there is music by Tallis, Dr. Arne, Francis Ireland, and Gustave Holst, and it is fascinating to observe how the elegaic motif is treated by each composer, always successfully, but in entirely different ways. The magnificent Byrd motet, Iustorum Animae, probably the finest music on the program, sums up in its short pages all the serenity and breadth of sixteenth-century classicism. With a bare economy of notes, it builds up by means...
...modern ears, unusual. Finishing off with the boisterous drunkards' chorus from Moussorgsky's "Kovantschina," and the sparkling finale of the "Gondoliers," the program leaves the listener, relaxed on the grass, in a peasant frame of mind--or more so, than would Rossini's Petite Messe Solonelle, a Frescobaldi motet, or the Mahler "Resurrection" Symphony...