Word: palestrina
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...drew 9,600 boys from all over, including its first Negroes. "Banty's" boys began Andover's athletic rivalry with Exeter in 1878, winning in football 22-0. Andover has dominated since (42 games to 32 in all), even using halfbacks who charged the Exeter line singing Palestrina motets...
...Methodist Church in 1955. At full strength it now numbers nearly 60 singers-white, Negro, Japanese, Hawaiian and Chinese. Explains pert, pony-tailed Soprano Uta Shimotskuka, 23: "With a good group like this, it was easy to attract many young singers who heard that we preferred Orlando di Lasso, Palestrina and also Faure and Poulenc to the inevitable Handel and Mendelssohn...
...Glee Club naturally did not last long, and by 1926 it was singing to a half-empty Symphony Hall. But it was still contributing just as much to the revival of choral singing, setting an example to the many college Glee Clubs that discarded their mandolins and took up Palestrina, Bach and Vaughn Williams...
...shelter to pilgrims. During the Jubilee Year of 1575, according to contemporary accounts, the Oratory opened its doors to 144,913 visitors and served 365,132 meals. The musical form, oratorio, derives its name from Philip's community, where it was partly developed by Florentine Composer Giovanni Animuccia. Palestrina's successor as choir master at St. Peter...
...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...