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Other events presented last night were an oratorio based on written works by persons affected by AIDS, set to musiccomposed by Sarah Hicks '93 and a Gospelfest,meant as "a prayer for people with AIDS,"according to Nana A. Twum-Danso '94, Outreach.coordinator for AIDS Education and Outreach...
...AIDS Oratorio, performed by Harvardstudents, and a Gospelfest will be held tomorrow."The Wizard of Aids," a musical parody, will beperformed Thursday...
...diverse variations for piano on a Chilean leftist anthem, "The People United Will Never Be Defeated" (1975). In the late '70s and early '80s Rzewski turned to American folk song and jazz for musical material and to environmentalism for political motivation. In 1987-88 he composed the oratorio "The Triumph of Death," based on a play by Peter Weiss depicting the trial of Nazi war criminals...
...American Jew by Palestinian terrorists -- may be one reason, and Peter Sellars' murky staging at the premiere last year in Brussels another. But the new Nonesuch original-cast CD (which coincides with an updated production in San Francisco) reveals the real explanation: Adams' lush score is fundamentally an oratorio, lacking Nixon's sharp characterization and big set pieces. This, however, is good news for the recording, for Klinghoffer's reflective soliloquies and choruses make the work better suited to home listening than to the stage...
...raising effort to turn his old school, Liverpool Institute, into a Fame- type training ground for the musically talented. When the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic asked him to help mark its 150th anniversary, he ventured into classical music and composed a 90-minute choral epic called Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio. It was a brave try for a man who doesn't read or write music. But it turned out to be strangely flat, a criticism that McCartney shrugs off. He was more worried that rock friends would think it "fruity...