Word: musicae
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CHORUS PRO MUSICA at Symphony Hall will play a Verdi Requiem Sunday evening...
...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...
Right through to the glorious final Communio, the New York Pro Musica did far more than perform old music; it removed the patina from a neglected master, piece and presented it as living example of the vigor of the Renaissance...
...sang aria after aria in serene, long-breathing lines. Bright with sentimentally colored melodies, Orontea scored a hit even with the critic of the Communist L'Unita, who conceded that "it really is beautiful music." The audience did not quite hail the composer as a "miracolo della musica," as it did in Cesti's day-but it gave the friar the honor of 27 curtain calls...
Died. James J. Caffrey, 63, blunt Boston lawyer, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission from 1946 to 1947, onetime SEC investigator whose doggedness helped expose McKesson & Robbins President Philip Musica and former New York Stock Exchange President Richard Whitney as stock swindlers; of a heart attack; in Durban, South Africa...