Word: psalming
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...atmosphere was neither to nor expectant as the program needed as usual at the afternoon Alumni Association meeting: the national Anthem, the Alumni President talk, an address by the Governor, two scheduled addresses, and the Psalm. Then Republican Governor Robert F. Bradford of Massachusetts rose and announced, "Ladies and Gentlemen--the Secretary of State." an appreciative ovation, Marshall stepped to the rostrum...
...major works on the program, jointly performed by the two choruses, were di Lasso's Penitential Psalm, 'De Profundis,' Beethoven's 'Elegischer Gesang,' Op. 118, and Schubert's Mass in G Major. The worst-performed, Schubert's Mass, written at 18, suffered from an execrable accompaniment by a small string ensemble. In their solo passages, the strings sounded uniformly out of tune, weak, uncertain, and uncoordinated Beneath the chorus, they could only muddle the texture a little, but almost did derange the pitch and rhythm of the three excellent soloists. Sure and accurate, Tenor David Griffith, Soprano Emily Romney...
...Profundis,' sixth of a set of seven penitential psalms, displayed the Glee Club more to advantage. Kapellmeister di Lasso began the set of psalms under commission from Duke Albert of Bavaria in 1563. He based the sixth psalm on a cantus firmus (chant melody) which recurs in each movement of the piece. The Radcliffe Society had consistent trouble making its entrances, but the chorus, though occasionally bottom-heavy, preserved the viscous fluidity of Lasso's style. The men's chorus, by the way, has fine basses, and exploits them well; but sometimes instead of stabilizing they sink the ship...
...psalm comes from the most important of recent Dead Sea Scroll discoveries: a blackened, decaying goatskin Psalter that was dug up near Wadi Qumran by a Bedouin in 1956. After long and careful treatment, the scroll was unrolled by James A. Sanders, professor of Old Testament at Colgate Rochester Divinity School. "All it required." said Dr. Sanders, who took ten days for the delicate job, "was a penknife, a humidifier and guts." Written down between A.D. 30 and 50, the Psalter scroll was presumably used for worship by the Essenes-a community of Jewish ascetics who were wiped...
...Senturia's pared-down orchestra (the Symphony is scored for brass, winds, tympani and 'cellos) provided an admirable accompaniment. The first desk winds handled the fugal introduction to the second psalm with ease, a particularly delicate passage full of grace and restraint, and in the more monolithic third psalm the brasses showed strength and carefully controlled enthusiasm...