Word: oratorio
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...University Choir sang the first two cantatas of the six that make up the Christmas Oratorio. The performance was a great testimony to the ability of the Choir. Throughout the school year, music at Memorial Church is relegated--rightfully--to a supportive role. The carol programs grant the Choir a chance to perform as a solo ensemble without leaving contest...
...vague Enlightenment rationalism grants us a tolerance for a variety of religious expressions; and even the intense orthodoxy of a composer like J.S. Bach does not put us off, but perversely enhances our wonder at his accomplishments. The specifics of religious identification within a work like Bach's Christmas Oratorio are lost to us. Yet the sincerity of its conception (and of course the skill of its composition) are as evident now as in the 18th century...
...performers and promoters licensed by the state to be protected against wilful disturbances. Otherwise, he said, "a few ill-disposed persons... by tin horns, cracked kettles, and other loud and discordant sounds, as well as by vociferation, might destroy the effect of the most pathetic tragedy, or the sublimest oratorio...
...great was the excitement before the single Royal Albert Hall performance of Arthur Honegger's stage oratorio, Joan of Arc at the Stake, that the Observer compared it to the time in September 1968 when Pianist Daniel Barenboim was warned that he was going to be shot during a concert. The big attraction, however, was not murder; the oratorio was bringing together the professional talents of the recently married lovers Mia Farrow and Andre Previn, she as Joan, he as conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, the Ambrosian Opera Chorus and a children's choir. The critics were...
Written during a hectic three-and-a-half weeks in the summer of 1741, Handel's oratorio has always been a smash. If a nearly endless succession of well-meaning popularizers have taken gross and extravagant liberties with it, Handel is partly to blame. A shrewd businessman, he ensured The Messiah's success by hiring the best and most popular singers in 18th century London to sing it. If the bass singer was not very good, Handel would turn the bass aria into a recitative, rewrite it for an alto or even a soprano. For flexible soprano voices...