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...inspite of all this praise, it just wouldn't be a Crimson review if it didn't say something nasty. "Apparebit Repentina Dies" requires a brass ensemble, and the ensemble we heard Thursday night deserves a disparaging remark or two. Hindemith is not easy going, and the instrumentalists could have benefited from a few more rehearsals. Though there were no major disasters--indeed, no real threats of any--their overall performance was a bit on the ragged side...
...concert will open with two selections by Ralph Vaughan Williams, "O Taste and See" and "O Clap Your Hands." The first piece was composed for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Then the chorus will sing the Apparebit Repentina Dies" by Paul Hindemith. It was composed in 1947 for a Symposium on Musical Criticism held at Harvard and was performed then by the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society with the composer conducting...
Norton Professor of Poetry Paul Rindemith will be guest conductor for half the program. He will conduct four of his own works: "Frau Musica," a canon for the 85th birthday of Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, "Apparebit Repentina Dies," and "The Demon of the Gibbet." The audience will be requested to sing the canon for Mrs. Coolidge...
Among his works is his "Apparebit Repentina Dies" for chorus and brass which was commissioned by the Harvard Music Department. It was performed by the Collegiate Chorale of New York under Robert Shaw's direction...
...latter work, entitled "Apparebit Repentina Dies", is based on a Latin poem of uncertain date and authorship ("before A.D. 700", said the program). This is a description in unrhymed octameter couplets of a Doomsday that recalls by its luridness the same scene as painted in the liturgical "Dies Irae." Mr. Hindemith's musical setting, though interspersed with brass interludes in his familiar fugal style, is perhaps a shade expeditious for so picturesque a subject. It trips, or rather bumps along in a jolly fashion that depicts little and scares no one; but it is distinguished music, if a bit ineffective...
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