Word: palestrina
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...program is as yet unplanned, but last year pieces ranging from Palestrina to Gilbert and Sullivan were performed...
...concert season, no group travels farther and gives more performances than the Trapp Family Singers (last season: 125 concerts from coast to coast). When summer comes, the Trapps retire to their 660-acre farm in the Green Mountains near Stowe, Vt. and let lovers of Bach, Palestrina and Vittoria come and sing with them...
...down to 35 members, dressed in smart gabardine battle-jacket uniforms (they call them "costumes" now), de Paur's Infantry Chorus whisked expertly through a diverse program from 16th Century Palestrina to U.S. contemporary Composer Paul Creston, who has arranged works especially for them. Critics gave them good marks for diction, blending of voices and clarity of line, and for a welcome versatility of material which the Don Cossack choruses lack. Wrote the New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson: "[This choir] could, without half trying, raise the whole level of our current taste in semi-popular music...
Died. Carlo Cardinal Salotti, 77, Bishop of Palestrina; of a liver ailment; in Rome. A Cardinal since 1935, for the past nine years he had been Prefect of the Congregation of Rites (the organization which prepares argumentative evidence for & against the creation of new saints and blesseds). A persuasive orator, he had previously served as Promoter of the Faith ("The Devil's Advocate"), whose role is to argue as persuasively as possible against the candidate for canonization...
...Palestrina's exceedingly difficult Stabat Mater for 24 mixed voices, probably beyond the capabilities of the available performers, suffered from the apparently unquenchable desire of individual voices to stand out alone. The performance lacked both clarity and freshness; it continually dragged. Similar difficulties were encountered in the four Gabrieli selections, although the fine expression and phrasing in Monteverdi's Ohime Se Tanto Amate made up for lapses in technique. With the superb playing of six members of the New England Conservatory's brass department backing them up, the combined groups offered, in the final Jubilate Deo, some of the unrestrained...