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Harvard-Radcliffe Music Clubs Cantata No. 49 Buxtohude Sacred Concert No. 24 Schein Missa L'homme Arme Palestrina Lamentations of Jersmiah Victoria Motet, "Laudes Christo Redemptor!" Obrecht...
...chorus members got off to a shaky start in the Palestrina. They all appeared to be holding back, with the result that enunciation, tone quality, and interpretation were uniformly poor. However, they proved their worth by a spirited reading of Obrecht's Motet--a work which is not so good as the Palestrina, but which sounded better. This dozen singers do have excellent voices when they are willing to let themselves go, and they had no trouble in projecting the difficult music...
...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...