Word: musicae
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Like the Bard, pre-Bach music is not to be forgotten. Drawing from the works of Shakespeare's contemporaries-Thomas Morley, William Byrd, Tobias Hume, John Wilbye, John Dowland-Pro Musica shook the dust off a score of Elizabethan madrigals and lute songs, embellishing the rarefied melodies with a rhythmic liveliness and delicate twining of voices and instruments to produce, in Shakespeare's words, "sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not."-See Music, The Ancient's Mariner...
...Women's Hebrew Association. The founders, leading Jewish philanthropists of the 1870s, aimed at "the cultural and intellectual advancement of Jewish young men." At first that meant luring immigrant kids off the streets with hot showers and 50 violin lessons. Later it meant developing the New York Pro Musica ensemble, harboring dancers from Martha Graham to Jose Limon, and attracting some of the most literate audiences in the U.S. While salvaging such once-poor Jewish boys as Bernard Baruch and Billy Rose, the 92nd Street YMHA has always refused to be parochial. In 1880, for example...
TODAY (NBC, 7-9 a.m.)* An all-musical program of 16th century works performed by the New York Pro Musica Renaissance Band...
...Juilliard, Schola Cantorum, and Columbus Boychoir) and twelve top-priced soloists, including Tenors Richard Tucker and Jon Vickers, Soprano Eileen Farrell and Mezzo-Soprano Shirley Verrett-Carter. The Philharmonic was followed in later programs by the Boston, the Philadelphia and the Cleveland orchestras, by the New York Pro Musica, the Juilliard String Quartet, the Metropolitan Opera, assorted pianists (including Van Cliburn), and by Adlai Stevenson, who, in excellent voice, provided the narration to Aaron Copland's A Lincoln Portrait...
CHORUS PRO MUSICA at Symphony Hall will play a Verdi Requiem Sunday evening...