Word: sing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tanglewood the Chorus will sing the Mozart Requiem in honor of Pope John XXIII with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Eric Leinsdorf on July...
Miss Hiatt likes her groups to sing music from all periods, but thinks that contemporary music is a special test of a chorus' excellence: "This century's music is an indication of our cultural validity, and I want to deal with only that music which is vital...
...this production, the storm rises and falls, and the whole becomes a sort of huge stichomythic dialogue between Lear and Nature rather than a ludicrous replica of a lyric tenor trying to sing over an unyielding Wagnerian fortissimo. Yet further experimentation with these scenes can probably make them still better...
Then something snapped. Standing in front of the funeral home, a small group of Negroes began to sing. "Before I'll be a slave," they chanted, "I'll be buried in my grave and go home to my Lord." Other Negroes joined in. "No more killin' here, no more killin' over here." Soon a whole chorus of swaying, hand-clapping people was sobbing, "No more Jim Crow over here, over here; I'm dead before I'd be a slave...
...Seerauber-Jenny and Barbara's Song dies in the throat under the weight of her sad eyes. "It's easy for me to feel like a rejected woman," she says, "and I think I can make it clear that I'm not joking when I sing...