Word: spiritum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon and evening in Symphony Hall would not have satisfied a purist. The retards on cadences were exaggerated, the orchestral part at the end of "Et Resurrexit" was omitted and so was the first Osanna. The soles were taken more slowly than regulation, particularly the bass aria, "Et in Spiritum Sanctum," for it is quite frankly a pastoral dance, inspired by the word "Vivificantem" (Giver of life...
...soloists both vocal and instrumental, were unformly good. Special notice must go to Leo Wolovsky, the bass. Though he suffered some in the "Quonian" from the competition of the horn, he showed complete understanding of words and music in the "Et in Spiritum Sanetum," with enough technical skill to make both apparent...
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