Word: musicae
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THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE. Julie An drews, Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Channing and Bea Lillie flip through some oh-you kidding dialogue and some ricky-ticky tunes in an otherwise lackluster musica...
...krummhorn, which are used to play dances by Michael Praetorious, madrigals by Orlando di Lasso, and a solemn "battle symphony" by Heinrich Isaac probably performed during a play by Lorenzo the Magnificent (Leonardo da Vinci is supposed to have composed a similar work). Recorded by the New York Pro Musica under the direction of its founder, the late Noah Greenberg...
...nonplused at the omission of Duquesne University's Bernard Goldberg, flutist of the Pittsburgh Symphony and the Musica Viva Trio, soloist with the Casals and Marlboro festivals...
...Translated from the German and sung clearly in English, the oratorio will seem especially vivid to U.S. listeners because the music so closely fits the words. One hears the tawny lion roar, the insects swarm and the tiger leap for the first time on earth. Frederic Waldman conducts the Musica Aeterna Orchestra and Chorus, and Soprano Judith Raskin, as Gabriel, sings brilliantly, at times eclipsing her more earthbound fellow archangels, Tenor John McCollum and Bass Chester Watson...
Died. Noah Greenberg, 46, founder (in 1952) and director of the New York Pro Musica, a group of ten musicians whose performance of the 12th century Play of Daniel revived interest in the all but forgotten music composed during the five centuries before Bach; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Greenberg dressed his players in medieval garb and used original instruments, mostly odd-looking woodwinds with such names as zink, shawm and Rauschpfeife...