Word: palestrina
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beacon Brass Quintet--Music of Palestrina, Aram, Joplin, Dahland and others. At Walpole State Prison Walpole. Free. Call 353-3345 for details...
Wellesley Chamber Singers take a shot at Byrd, Britten, Tallis, and Palestrina. Dunster Library...
...name is unlikely to appear. Press them about Wilder and they'll tell you he's the novelist who wrote The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Wilder is a man of incredible learning in many subjects (such as the dating of Cope de Vega's early works, or Palestrina's technique of counterpoint), a master of classroom teaching, and a former professor at the University of Chicago and Harvard. But mention his name to scholars and they'll dismiss him as a creative writer. He can't win; praised by some, condemned by others, he is overlooked by most...
Renaissance Lamentations including works of Byrd, Brumel, and Palestrina; Harvard Glee Club, F. John Adams, conductor; St Paul's Church...
...snobbish attention to one kind of music to the exclusion of all others is something peculiar to our own times," he says. "In the 16th century, Palestrina used street songs in his Masses. Mozart and Beethoven wrote both classical and 'pop' music, and Bartok used the folk music of Hungary to build impressive symphonic works. The snobbism works both ways," he adds. "There are Rolling Stones freaks who won't listen to anything else either...