Word: oratorio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best part of the program by far was the Quintet and Final Chorus from Handel's Oratorio, "Jeptha." The Chorus, which seemed to improve as the evening were on, sang with precision and expression and each voice part came through clearly. The voices of soloists Joyce Young and Martha Hopkins were notable for their fine tonal quality and good enunciation, and they blended well together...
Haydn: The Seasons (Trude Eipper-le, soprano; Julius Patzak, tenor; Georg Hann, bass; the Vienna State Opera Chorus, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Clemens Krauss conducting; Haydn Society, 6 sides LP). Haydn's last oratorio, given a dramatic performance. Recording: good...
Altogether, Landon has recorded 25 Haydn symphonies, six Masses, Haydn's most famed oratorio, The Creation, and some chamber works, with Mozart's neglected opera Idomeneo thrown in for good measure. With profits from record sales, the society has published the first of 63 volumes of Haydn's collected works. Landon (and seven other stockholders) can now survey a corporation which will gross $150,000 this year, numbers some of the world's outstanding Haydn authorities (including Denmark's Jens Peter Larsen, Boston's Karl Geiringer) on its advisory board. Nonetheless, the society...
Last week 59-year-old Composer Prokofiev announced a new work for children: an oratorio called Guarding Peace, for children's voices, mixed chorus, soloists and orchestra, with text by Children's Poet Samuel Marshak. In the new work, his latter-day Peter comes across a new species of wolf: "The sinister, evil voices of the warmongers and Wall Street merchants on their way to Korea, carrying hundreds of thousands of death-dealing bombs." Guarding's enthusiastic conclusion : "The children's best friend and protector lives in the Kremlin...
...could hope for in the way of production. It was intimately and imaginatively staged, with the audience sitting around three sides of the performers. Its heroine, Gisela Fischer, a 21-year-old Sarah Lawrence junior, could act as well as sing. Yet Triumph of Joan came off closer to oratorio than opera...