Word: vivaldi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Balaenarum Choir, which means "Voice of the Whales" in Latin, has held a spring concert for each of the last three years. While this year's performance features such distinguished composers as Vivaldi and Klengel, the highlight of the concert will be the performance of an original composition by graduate student Noam Elkies...
...eyes search your face for a mystery as deep as God, asking nothing and everything, the way that music operates. He hopes that you always love music, even the noisy boredom you clamp to your ears these days, while he harbors the prayer that in later years will follow Vivaldi and Bix Beiderbecke. If you learn to love jazz, you will have a perpetual source of joy at the ready. Jazz is serious joy, much like yourself...
Everything before Bach is often lumped under the vague title of early music, a flourishing subfield. Besides Bach, well-known baroque composers include Handel, Vivaldi and Telemann...
What sets Morris apart from most of his contemporaries is his extraordinary musicality. He seems open to a huge variety of styles--raga, rock, Poulenc, with perhaps a special affinity for such musical architects of the baroque as Vivaldi and Handel. Morris can find the dance in the music. Like Balanchine, he can hear a piece whole and render a fresh visualization of it instead of transcribing it as a pattern or making it serve as an organizing element for arbitrary action. In Jealousy, a solo set to Handel, he fills out the score with large, writhing moves and smaller...
Doriot Dwyer, for the past 30 years the principal flutist of the BSO, will perform selections from Bach, Fauret and Vivaldi...