Word: musicae
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Daniel was traditionally performed in church to celebrate the New Year, but it is really a thinly disguised popular musical play. Its richly colored music was transcribed for the scholarly New York Pro Musica group (which first revived the play last year) from a 13th century manuscript unearthed in the British Museum. With costumes derived from medieval illustrations and dialogue in the original medieval Latin and French, the current production makes one concession to modern audiences in the form of a skillful English verse narration by Poet W. H. Auden that outlines the action...
...Play of Daniel (New York Pro Musica; Decca). In a fascinating excursion into the Middle Ages, the nation's most avid collectors of musical antiquities present an early church musical drama in the original Latin text. The vocal parts suggest everything from Gregorian chant to folk song, the orchestra includes such authentic curiosities as a rebec, a vielle and a minstrel's harp. The result is a sound as finely jeweled, as warmly colored, and often as moving as an expanse of stained glass...
Pierian usually sponsors a joint choral-orchestral concert as a highlight of the year's schedule, following the pattern of joint concerts started in 1943. Boston's Chorus Pro Musica, the Brandeis University Chorus, the Glee Club and Choral Society have all joined with the orchestra in recent years, as have the Lexington and Framingham Choral Societies. This year's performance of Haydn's Creation was a renewal of association between the three Harvard musical organizations after a separation of four years...
...Musica Antique. Star and principal lyricist for the current revue is a craggy-faced comic named Ronny Graham, a Broadway fugitive (New Faces of 1952) whose delivery is sometimes so shaggy that it is hard to tell which end of his joke is wagging. He mugs through an uproarious monologue on graduation day at a bop school, i.e., a baccalaureate sermon on how to puff marijuana cigarettes without wasting a whiff of those "leftwing Luckies." With poker-faced, evil-eyed Straight Man Gerry Matthews, 26, he delivers a to-the-point parody of TV Torquemada Mike Wallace. The cellar...
From the Pro Musica Antiqua...