Word: palestrina
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Palestrina: The Song of Songs (Prague Madrigal Choir; Miroslav Venhoda conductor; Vanguard/ Bach Guild, $2.98). The great Renaissance polyphonist, best known for soaring church works like the Pope Marcellus Mass, here took his text, somewhat uncharacteristically, from Solomon's highly sensuous biblical verses: "A bundle of myrrh is my well beloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts." The result: one of Palestrina's two or three loveliest works, sung movingly by the Czech performers...
...instincts, Horne at 18 flunked out of the opera workshop at the University of Southern California. To sing Carmen at that age, as the director insisted, would ruin her voice, she felt. Yet at 21, she was one of Los Angeles' more prominent singers, performing Palestrina and Brahms with the Roger Wagner Chorale and Igor Stravinsky with Igor Stravinsky...
Larousse Encyclopedia of Music. Edited by Geoffrey Hindley. 576 pages. World. $19.95. A potpourri of minstrels and melody that manages to make the songs of old Provence seem as delectable as poulet a la proven∧ale. So too with musical greats from Palestrina and Purcell to Wagner and Webern, in a handsome treatise that is informed and comfortably free of jargon. This is primarily history, not a quick alphabetical reference aid (readers wanting that should try the Oxford Companion to Music). The knowing may regret the cursory treatment of American music and wonder, say, why Stravinsky and Berlioz...