Word: musicae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have had the valuable experience of having their interest in choral music aroused, and who do not make the Harvard Glee Club next week, will not strictly "have no chance to continue singing." There exist the Bach Society Chorus, the Music Club Chorus, Alfred Nash Patterson's Chorus Pro Musica in Boston, church choirs throughout the Cambridge and Boston areas. The operetta choruses have in the past actually had a majority of non-Glee Club singers, and, as in the case of the Winthrop House Opera last spring, additional Glee Club members have been solicited only after the interest from...
...little charmers as he does into his more famed operas (Der Freischutz, Oberon, Euryanthe). Other notable new releases: Brahms's German Requiem (soloists, Frankfurt Opera Chorus and Orchestra and Museum Orchestra conducted by Georg Sold; Capitol, 2 LPs); Giuseppe Torelli's Twelve Concert!, Op. 8 (Stuttgart Pro Musica String Orchestra conducted by Rolf Reinhardt; Vox, 3 LPs). Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, in fine performances by Jascha Heifetz and London's Philharmonia Orchestra under Walter Susskind (Victor), and Zino Francescatti and the New York PhilhaononicSymphony under Dimitri Mitropoulos (Columbia); Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. I (Nathan...
Byrd: The Four& Five-Part Masses (Pro Musica Antiqua conducted by Safford Cape; EMS). These two Masses for solo voices were composed during the Reformation in England, when Roman Catholic services were forbidden. The music is a fine sample of Byrd's mastery of counterpoint and his heartfelt devotion. It is sympathetically sung by Belgian specialists in fine music of bygone days...
Mendelssohn: Two-piano Concerto in E Major (Orazio Frugoni & Eduard Mrazek, pianists; Vienna Pro Musica Symphony conducted by Hans Swarowsky; Vox). A bright, attractive score written by Mendelssohn when he was only 15, and unperformed for more than a century. Pianist Frugoni, who tilted with a stubborn Soviet-zone librarian in Germany to bring the long-forgotten music to light (TIME, July 16, 1951), plays his part with high spirits...
...time of his death he was editing material for the Musica Britannica...