Word: palestrina
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Pierluigi Palestrina: Ricercare...
...tour of this country with a pair of concerts at Jordan Hall. The usual one-act operas which accompany each performance will again be presented--Schubert's "A Song from Old Vienna" on Tuesday, and Mozart's "Bastien et Bastienne" on Wednesday. In addition, shorter numbers of Vittoria, Palestrina, Schubert, Brahms, and Straus are included in the programs...
...Persian music in the British Museum. But like any shrewd showman he first gave his subscribers just what they wanted: his own arrangement of Bach, a Beethoven symphony, a magnificent high-powered reading of Death and Transfiguration. Only flaw was the Prelude to Hans Pfitzner's long-winded Palestrina. But of that no one took much notice...
...which had earnest hard-working choristers gave Westminster Choir its start. The conductor was Dr. John Finley Williamson, quiet son of a British clergyman, whose aim in life was to improve church music, make it more devotional, restore some of the artistic prestige it had in the days of Palestrina, Haydn, Bach. The first Westminster Choir (1920) was composed of factory workers and named for Dayton's Westminster Presbyterian Church where it sang Sundays. But John Williamson was not content with one group's singing, no matter how expert. He wanted proteges who, like himself, would be willing...
...Bach Cantata Club, conducted by Mrs. Langdon Warner and Mr. Bernard C. Jones, will give a concert in the Fogg Art Museum tonight at 8.30 o'clock. Tickets can be secured on request at the museum. In addition to Bach, selections by Palestrina, Holst, and Handel are on the program...