Word: schmidts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...considered an interesting experiment in the ability of performers and listeners to keep up the kind of concentration needed to hear good music. The effort was great but the results were worth it to those who heard the concert given by the Harvard Summer School Chorus under conductor Harold Schmidt. On the program were the Schubert E Flat Mass, No. 6, madrigals by Schein, Morley, and Monteverdi, the Gabrielli In Eclesiis, Giuseppe Sarti's Fuga a otto voci reali, and Igor Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms...
...Schubert Mass is itself a work which is long in the hearing and long in the understanding. It is big and loosely organized. What contributed most to conductor Schmidt's reading of the work was his complete control of balance among singers and players. At times, one began to lose track of the development and growth of themes but this could be entirely laid at the door of technical inadequacies on the part of the performers. In addition the repeated fugal entrances of the chorus in the Credo and Gloria were, through their overt pompousness, a built-in weakness...
...three madrigals were Thomas Morley's "Phyllis I fain would die now," Mein Schifflein lief in wilden Meer by Johann Schein, and the two-part madrigal Altri canti di Marte by Claudio Monteverdi. They were sung under the direction of Mr. Schmidt by the Chamber Chorus. The Chamber Chorus, which is made up of a small portion of the Summer School Chorus, produces an over-all sound which, while generally excellent, sometimes becomes a bit too rich and developed to permit the listener to savor the true flavor of this type of music. The actual interpretation of the music -- balancing...
...trumpets, the Gabrielli was most satisfactory. While here and in the Sarti one might have hoped for a slightly less room-fulling sound from the organ, the ecclesiastical air of the music was quite effective. Soloists for the In Ecclesiis were Sally Thomas, Soprano; Pamela Gore, alto; Carl Schmidt, tenor; and James Jonse, baritone. The Sarti Fugue, a double fugue of a relatively primitive sort, demonstrated the ability of the singers to make a somewhat intricats, overworked piece into a worthwhile listening experience...
...subsidiary, the board's eight other members argued his policies point by point, then unanimously voted him out of office. In his place, they appointed a temporary triumvirate: William Alexander, president of the Denver Tramway Corp.; Eugene Adams, president of the First National Bank of Denver; and Martin Schmidt, transportation consultant and professor at the University of Colorado. Said Adams: "There has been a growing division of opinion within the board over the advisability of some of the recent acquisitions...