Word: repentina
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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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