Word: oratorio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Albert F. Stoessel, Conductor New York Oratorio Society...
...Bridgeport Oratorio Society and the New York Philharmonic Society combined forces at Carnegie Hall, Manhattan. The most amusing thing they did-and the most important-was an actual rendition of Percy Grainger's Marching Song of Democracy, under the composer's baton. The work was inspired by the uncouth verses of America's hoary revolutionary poet, "chanting the great pride of man in himself." It was composed in Germany, Australia, New York, between 1901 and 1918. The original plan was to write it for voices and whistlers only (no instruments), and to have it performed...
Europe has been thrilled by the gifts of Nino Rota Rinaldi, aged eleven, of Milan, who caused a sensation last month at Tourcoing, France, by conducting a performance of an oratorio written by himself. The work, The Childhood of St. John, was produced by a chorus and orchestra of 250 persons. Both the boy's composition and his conducting were pronounced excellent...
...unaccompanied. Specifically, it was the Sistine Choir (TIME, Oct. 22), in its Manhattan début. One does not think of voices without accompaniment as an instrument of rich and dramatic musical utterance. The church choir, smug, monotonous, leaves an abiding impression on the American ear. Even the best of oratorio choruses do not escape the stilted, churchy dullness. A fine operatic chorus, like that of the Metropolitan Opera Company, is not an independent unity; it works essentially in conjunction with the orchestra. There have been one or two unaccompanied ecclesiastical choruses before, and good ones (the Paulist Choristers, for instance...
...city of Tourcoing, near Lille, there will be produced during next October an oratorio written by a boy of eleven. The announcement adds that the piece, which is called The Childhood of Saint John the Baptist, was begun by the little composer when he was no more than ten. The boy is named Rota Rinaldi. He is now studying at the conservatory at Milan. His mother, it is said, has taken alarm at his too early concentration upon music, and has decided to remove him from his advanced musical studies and send him to an ordinary high school...