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...PLAY OF DANIEL (Dec. 25, 8:30-9:45 p.m.). NET's Christmas special with the New York Pro Musica...
STRATFORD FESTIVAL, Stratford, Ont., Canada. On July 7, Duke Ellington performs sacred music; on Aug. 25, New York Pro Musica performs Spanish court music...
...last week's "Electric Christmas" concert in Carnegie Hall, an experimental, 80-minute program that had no breaks-except with tradition. The participants: the twelve-member New York Pro Musica ensemble, whose long-time specialty has been little-known medieval and Renaissance music; the five-man Circus Maximus, a Manhattan-based rock group; a lighting crew from the Electric Circus, a Manhattan discothèque; and Electronic Composer Morton Subotnick, a professor at New York University...
...This was not a concert but a celebration of the affinities among the musicians," explained Pro Musica Director John White, who conceived the project. Actually, the quality of the program was as mixed as its media. The lighting effects eventually became tiresome distractions; the electronic sounds some-times rambled and screeched. Yet the shattering of conventional concert categories was exhilarating, and the music at its best did reach White's goal of achieving "some great moments," notably in a delightful collaboration between the Pro Musica and Circus Maximus on Guillaume de Machaut's 14th century song Douce Dame...
...performances of two 12th cen-tury music dramas, The Play of Daniel and The Play of Herod. Staged and costumed in period style, these productions unfold in vocal chants and instrumental passages of austere elegance and moving simplicity. White, 43, a musicologist and harpsichordist who took over the Pro Musica after Founder Noah Greenberg died in 1966, has no intention of abandoning such efforts. In fact he plans more: the group will soon start rehearsals for a production of Jacopo Peri's 1600 opera Euridice, the earliest opera for which all the music has been preserved, and is preparing...