Word: psalms
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...from contemporary experimentation, it wanders among neoclassical revivals, folk song arrangements, and patriotic hymning. The program of the Choral Society and the Glee Club set high standards of taste for the moderns to match when they opened with Thomas Tallis's Lamentations of Jeremiah and Heinrich Schutz's 34th Psalm; three contemporary madrigals and Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex met them generally well, but Roger Sessions's Turn, O Libertad...
...chorus's light, luminous sonority, when it sang Tallis's Lamentations of Jeremiah, almost seemed to dim the lights, as is the tradition when the text is sung in Holy Week Matins. Nonetheless, its complex fabric was not very apparent. In Schutz' 84th Psalm it displayed excellent control of its vigor and contrasts. The Choral Society contributed six delightfully cool and sweet songs by Schumann, the chorus maintaining an airy tone and a group of soloists spun an intricate, but occasionally ill-balanced, texture. Three choruses of Haydn ended the concert on a tender, almost sentimental note. They were, indeed...
...style of the New English Bible has been praised and picked on by experts (TIME. March 24). It is satirized in the current issue of Horizon, whose managing editor. William Harlan Hale, gives his version of what the forthcoming translation of the Old Testament might do to the 23rd Psalm...
...sing the 123rd Psalm," called a big. broad-shouldered man in a fur-collared overcoat. The militant atheist leader knew what to do. "Break it up. citizens." he ordered and commanded the women to leave while they questioned the men. One of the group had arrived only that day from the Ukraine. "I got off the train and just asked passers-by where to find true believers," he said...
...Grandeur. The compositions of Alan Hovhaness, wrote one Japanese critic, "are like Japanese scrolls. As they are rolled out, they reveal new images and their message bit by bit. Western classical music in comparison is like a photographic print." Japanese audiences heard Hovhaness conduct several of his older works-Psalm and Fugue, the 28-minute Concerto No. 8-plus two brand-new works written in transit: Symphony No. 8, subtitled "Arjuna," after the name of a mythical hero from Indian folklore; and the choral piece Fuji (based on an 8th century Japanese poem beginning: "As I stepped...