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...songs and barrack ballads for some of his chorales. He even turned out such mundane pieces as a song on the joys of pipe smoking or a cantata about the glories of coffee. But the attitude behind all of his music was, as he noted in his manuscripts, "Deo soli gloria" (to God alone the glory...
...program opened with the Men's Glee Club alone singing two Renaissance motets by Jacob Handl. A small soli chorus sang from the balcony; and, considering the difficulties that such division presents, the precision of the performance was laudable. The power that a men's Glee Club must have to be really effective was missing, however, and the pieces chosen were short and of little interest. Those who favor the pre-Classical could again complain of having been unfairly ignored...
...most impressive thing about the soloists was how well they blended on the soli passages. The only poor performance came in some low register passages that were clearly beyond the ability of the Bassist, especially in some sustained notes of questionable constancy in the Gloria; but he sounded fine in the higher registers. The star of the evening was soprano Marsha Vleck who, though lacking the heroic power of the Choral Society's previous sopratio soloist, sang beautifully, accurately, and gracefully...
...lost too much power to the executive. "I can't imagine a better argument against the proposal than that," retorted Virginia Republican Richard Poff, a onetime supporter of the amendment. "I think it is the function of the legislative branch to defy, when necessary, the executive, to resist soli darity with...
...Yannatos had working with him a better HRO than I have heard in a long time. In prolonged soil, the brass choir and the woodwinds (especially the oboe) never faltered. Except for a little vagueness in some of the viola and bass soli, the strings sounded professional...