Word: schutz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...works contain such diversity in their original settings and simple length that an evening of varied chunks and snippets, and Etcetera concert, very easily comes apart at the seams. This concert did not, for the predominance of sacred works accentuated the contrasts among them, and an excellent performance of Schutz's Musicalische Exequien capped the evening off well...
...perform and direct performances. She became known in England through several concerts at Queen's Hall and Wigmore Hall, and broadcasts of old and new French music from London. In 1936, with her own singers from Paris, she gave the first public performance in London of one of Schutz's Passions and Faure's Requiem. The next year she became the first woman to conduct a whole program of the Royal Phil-harmonic Society...
There was a time when it was fairly recherche to show interest in Schutz or Gallus, but that day has past, Sunday evening, a capacity audience lined up an hour in advance for tickets to a performance of liturgical music by Josquin des Prez, Buchner, and other Fifteenth and Sixteenth century composers. And this was no historical experiment, but a mature, indeed exalted, presentation...
...Summer School Chorus will present a concert of music by Josquin Des Pres, Heinrich Schutz, Brahms, and Constant Lambert at Sanders Theatre, Wednesday night...
...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...