Word: palestrina
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...orchestra must feel secure enough in its renown to venture beyond the limits of the conventional concert program. Bartok, Stravinsky, Milhaud. Berg, Britten, Piston: shall we have to wait two more generations before they appear on a concert program as something more than rare curiosa? And Corelli, Vivaldi. Buxtehude, Palestrina, Monteverdi: shall we hear them only in recording or at rare chamber concerts...
Sedateness has never characterized the Dunster Dunces. When Charles Vivien, a tutor in Dunster House, decided in 1946 that the House needed a "choir", sedate souls might have smiled in expectation of a Palestrina revival. But when this self-same "choir" tossed a bombshell into a Dunster Senior Dinner with a ditty called "Balls, Balls, Balls," sedateness vanished forever. The original manuscript of "Balls," never again sung in public is a Dunce keepsake...
Harvard-Radcliffe Music Clubs Cantata No. 49 Buxtohude Sacred Concert No. 24 Schein Missa L'homme Arme Palestrina Lamentations of Jersmiah Victoria Motet, "Laudes Christo Redemptor!" Obrecht...
...chorus members got off to a shaky start in the Palestrina. They all appeared to be holding back, with the result that enunciation, tone quality, and interpretation were uniformly poor. However, they proved their worth by a spirited reading of Obrecht's Motet--a work which is not so good as the Palestrina, but which sounded better. This dozen singers do have excellent voices when they are willing to let themselves go, and they had no trouble in projecting the difficult music...
Occasionally he digs up something previously untouched and writes a paper on it, as he intends to do with his "other love," musical symbolism in Palestrina. "Sometimes I think these projects are smokescreens thrown up by the subconscious ... It's as if the subconscious were working on something and didn't want you to look at it until it was through...