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...Festival of Brazilian Music (Victor; 10 sides; $5.50). First big phonographic collection of works by Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazil's No. i composer and one of the lustiest living. Beautifully recorded by Soprano Elsie Houston, the Schola Cantorum, conducted by Hugh Ross, a scratch orchestra under Burle Marx. Villa-Lobosities: a Bachiana Brasileira for eight cellos attempting to fuse the spirits of Bach and Brazil; a Nonetto for chorus and small orchestra, purporting to describe Brazil's geography...
...Poles in the U. S. a faithful, tragic, Polish Christmas, kolendy and all. Parent and producer of this ceremony (from WJR, Detroit) was young Father Edward Majeske, director of the Detroit Roman Catholic Archdiocesan Organists Guild, and famed interpreter of Polish liturgical music. His cast: 24 youths of the Schola Cantorum of the Polish seminary of S. S. Cyril & Methodius. Their best-known kolenda, Wsrod Nocnej Ciszy, in Father Majeske's translation...
...primarily as an Impressionist composer of small-scale, poetic pieces for orchestra, a sort of minor Ravel. Last week, Manhattan music-lovers were jolted into rating Delius many notches higher. His 33-year-old Mass of Life, given a belated U. S. premiere by Conductor Hugh Ross and the Schola Cantorum, proved the outstanding event of the concert season so far, revealed its composer in a new and very different light. No impressionist miniature, the Mass of Life required the booming efforts of a gigantic chorus, four solo singers and a full symphony orchestra, moved tellingly from climax to climax...
Died. Kurt Schindler, 53, composer and conductor, founder and for 17 years leader of Manhattan's famed Schola Cantorum; after long illness; in Manhattan...
...Last week in Manhattan Bloch's faith and eloquence were manifested again in the U. S. premiere of his Avodath Hakodesh (Sacred Service), a setting for the liturgical texts used in the Hebrew temple. Composer Bloch conducted the performance, given by the 250 choristers of the New York Schola Cantorum, 80 members of the Philharmonic-Symphony and Baritone Friedrich Schorr of the Metropolitan Opera who acted as cantor. Bloch appeared clean-shaven and smiling, changed much from the harassed-looking. black-bearded man whom New Yorkers remembered. But Bloch's strength had not gone with his beard...