Word: motets
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...this appearance, Noah Greenberg conducted the New York Pro Musica's augmented Motet Choir, a thirty-five member group including six countertenors and ten boy choristers from New York's Little Church Around the Corner. The instrumental section consisted of two sackbuts, a shawm and a cornetto. This ensemble produced a terribly impressive, almost ethereal range of tonal coloring that perfectly suited the spiritual splendor of the programme...
...little blurred, and the diction is not as clear as it has been. But the sensationalism, the milking of each piece for the last ounce of "effect" has also gone, and the resulting straight readings are more honest and rewarding. This was particularly evident in Bach's Motet No. 1, also for double chorus, a capella, which preceded the Thompson...
Harvard and Radcliffe Musicians and artists have been invited to participate in the newly-organized religious arts program at The First Church in Cambridge, Congregational. Auditions for the church's new motet choir will be held Monday evening at 7:30. Plans are also under way for a program of religious art exhibits during the year...
...Vivaldi was preceded by a Brahms motet, O Heiland Reiss die Himmel Auf, portions of a Byrd Mass, and a powerful Brahms prelude played magnificently by the organist, James Armstrong...
...finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." It posed the intriguing question: Did they die by accident or by divine plan? Its prose was clean and classical, its characters adroitly limned and it was constructed with the delicacy of a motet. But it was essentially a tour de force, and Wilder's publishers were surprised at its runaway success. Bridge won the Pulitzer Prize, sold more than 2.000,000 copies, was translated into some two dozen languages and two bad motion pictures. As produced for CBS by David (Prince and the Pauper...