Word: palestrina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their touchstones, comparing every modern composition to the classical paragon in its form, usually harshly, often unfairly applying criteria that are not altogether suitable. The composer faces the choices of breaking definitely with the musical past; or creating a new mainstream of music by appealing to the pre-Palestrina composers; or deliberately continuing in the traditions of the great classical and romantic composers, risking invidious comparisons...
Thursday night was the first time Elliot Forbes has appeared with the Choral Society. Under his direction, the group soared through a concert of Bach, Gluck, Palestrina, and Polenc, the latter's "Litanies A La Vierge Noire" providing a peak of sheer emotion in the vocal section of the program...
...program comprises music for both full chorus and madrigal groups including Randall Thompson's "Fanfare for Chorus" especially commissioned by Schmidt for the Chorus. Other pieces are excerpts from Purcell's "Come Ye Sons of Art Away," Brahms' "Tafellied," Palestrina's "Surgere Amica Mea," Mozart's Cantata K. 108 "Regina Coeli," Vaughan Williams' "In Windsor Forest," and the complete performance of Monteverdi's madrigal, "Hor Ch'el Ciel." Accompanists will be Bernard Kreger '59 and James Armstrong...
...repertory of the Summer School Chorus will include works by Palestrina, Purcell, Mozart, Brahms, and Vaughan Williams...
...these admirers do exist, if the coy jacket notes are to be trusted. The rest of us had better stick to Palestrina or Muddy Waters, according to taste...