Word: suscepit
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Only towards the end did the quality of the performance improve. The chorus, which had had little success in its earlier ventures, demonstrated in the terzett Suscepit Israel that it is still the master of choral singing. The remaining choruses were capably handled, but their effectiveness only served to emphasize the failings of the first part. Mr. Forbes and his group have given us much better music before...
...section as a whole produced remarkably good intonation and tone quality. It is not surprising that the chorus was not quite up to the caliber of the orchestra since the singers were all freshmen. An unfortunate case of extreme flatting occured in the course of the woman's chorus "Suscepit Israel...
...into their costumes: choral robes in three shades of blue, covering western denims and cowboy boots beneath. Onstage, they froze their eyes on their austere boss and began singing. They piped sweetly, if a little uncertainly, through such concert showpieces as Stradella's Pieta Signore, Bach's Suscepit Israel and Mozart's Alleluia. Then they shed their robes. For the rest of the program, the boys sang one song each of Debussy and Handel, a group of folk songs and westerns punctuated with coyote calls and calf bawls, wound up an hour later in a high-gear...
...Bach "Magnificat" is a series of alternating choruses and solos, set to the words of the Virgin Mary's prayer. Except for the lovely "Suscepit Israel" there is nothing particularly virginal about the choruses which include some of the most powerful Bach outside of the B Minor Mass...
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