Word: verum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Forbes drew out a perfectly blended tone in Byrd's Ave Verum that seemed to glow from one warm, focal center. As the separate vocal lines developed, he maintained them with clarity and definition. But dynamics were problematic and in loud passages the tone became flat and a little harsh...
...remainder of the evening was taken up with two settings of the communion hymn 'ave Verum Corpus," one by Josquin des Pres and the second by William Byrd. Both were good (That's right, there are so many favorable adjectives in this that the supply is running pretty low). The concluding work on the program, Schutz's version of Psalm 84, was also competently performed. In all, it was quite a concert. Someone had quite evidently put a lot of work into...
Then two settings of the "Ave Verum Corpus" will be performed, one by Josquin des Prez for three voices and one by William Byrd for four voices. The "Ave Verum Corpus" text is a Communion hymn which has been set by composers of all ages...
Gerald Wilfring Gore is a prolific arranger of music who for years made a modest living turning out choral adaptations of such varied works as Home on the Range, Pestalozza's Ciribiribin, William Byrd's Ave Verum Corpus. Last week, in Manhattan's Caspary Auditorium, a crowd of musical professionals gathered to honor Arranger Gore on his 75th birthday. But the man who rose to take a shy bow at concert's end was known to the audience not as Gerald Gore but as Composer Wallingford Riegger...