Word: oratorio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stravinsky's 1927 opera-oratorio, Oedipus Rex, preceded by Ernst Krenek's three Medea monologues, sung by the Met's Mezzo-Soprano Blanche Thebom...
World Music Festivals (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). From the Royal Danish Festival in Copenhagen, excerpts from Han del's oratorio, Saul...
Wuppertal, at 109, one of the oldest music festivals of all,* will star Composer Paul Hindemith, conducting his new oratorio, Ite Angeli Veloces (June...
...singers gave the early music somewhat second-hand treatment. Two choruses by Schutz and Sweelinek exhibited some of the worst tenor tone the Glee Club has ever offered. The sound of Carissimi's Jepthe seemed much richer, but it was still only a routine performance of a routine oratorio. The program's success, despite Baroque appendages, lay principally in the stimulating compositions of our own time...
Among other music festivals in Europe this summer: One of the newest is Rouen's"Great Hours" (May 30-June11), centering on a famous short-time resident, Joan of Arc, and featuring Honegger's opera-oratorio, Jeanne d'Arc au Bucher (TIME, Jan. 12, 1948). Oldest festival of all is England's Three Choirs Festival, this year of Worcester (Sept. 5-10); it began about 1715 and has been going (with time out for wars) ever since. Using some 300 singers from Worcester, Gloucester and Hereford, the program is designed to satisfy British love of massed...