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Dallapiccola: Canti di Prigionia (St. Cecilia Academy Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Igor Markevich; Angel). Italy's most important composer, Luigi Dallapiccola, admires both Schoenberg's twelve-tone system and Palestrina's pure, polished polyphony, and these long, suppliant "songs of prison" combine some interesting aspects of both...
...Palestrina to Berlin. The French, numbering 32 boys, wore knee pants and white stockings for the secular half of their program (seven, whose voices had changed, wore long pants), switched to white robes for sacred songs. They performed both with easy professionalism. Led by greying, bearlike Monsignor Fernand Maillet, 59, they bubbled with lighthearted precision in such frolics as Frère Jacques and Alouette, brilliantly worked their way through a difficult cantata written for them by Darius Milhaud, and spun out an incredibly pure, otherworldly tone in the age-old Gregorian chant, Tenebrae Factae Sunt...
...recruits from working-class families as fast as oldtimers were mustered out. Eventually, they acquired a fine home in Paris, where more than 60 of them now live full time and are put through their rigorous musical training. At first, the youngsters sang only Gregorian chants and music by Palestrina and other austere polyphonists. By now they have relaxed enough to sing White Christmas, Danny Boy and She'll be Comin' Round the Mountain. The choir claims to be the most traveled in the world, with 1,000,000 miles under its feet, including five previous U.S. visits...
...their performances the men sang everything from Bach and Palestrina to "Fair Harvard." As the New York Herald's Paris edition commented, the Club had shown that there was something besides jazz in America. They also performed in many famous cathedrals, including a concert under the stars in the shell of Verdun Cathedral...
...last week, at the sold-out concert at Chicago's Civic Opera House, celebrating the famed choir's soth anniversary, such a thing as a flat tone was unthinkable. The program, which ranged from Palestrina to Stravinsky, produced a fortissimo reaction from the music critics. "Cool, thin, silver tone . . . timeless patina," said the Tribune. Said Paulist O'Malley: "It was one of the finest concerts I've ever conducted...