Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enemies of the National Council of the Churches of Christ are highly visible and extremely vocal." So the current issue of the Christian Century begins its lead editorial-a spirited defense of the National Council that quotes liberally from another defense of the N.C.C., in the July issue of the Southern California Presbyterian...
California-born Bill Smith, on the other hand, prefers chamber works to vocal compositions, has written some highly praised pieces (Divertimento for Norvo, Concerto for Clarinet and Combo) for chamber jazz groups. Juilliard trained and, like Eaton, a Roger Sessions pupil, Smith, 34, was a fellow student with Dave Brubeck at Mills College and a charter member of the original Brubeck Octet. He is still under contract to Brubeck, is on leave from his teaching post (composition) at U.S.C...
...Otello, he wrote: "He sings in a doubtful falsetto and his movements are unmeaning, and frequently absurd. For the C sharp in the celebrated duet L'ira d'avverso fato, he substituted a strange description of shriek at about that pitch. The audience, ever appreciative of vocal curiosities, eagerly redemanded...
...Florence's annual Maggio Musicale, The Merchant was a taut and impressive work. Composer Castelnuovo-Tedesco had so skillfully stitched music to text that every word rang with its original clarity. The opera, like much of Castelnuovo-Tedesco's work, was elegantly orchestrated, marked by sweeping vocal lines and shimmering lyric passages that echoed his admiration for Puccini. Although the Italian lines fell strangely on some ears ("Non ha un ebreo occhi?"-Hath not a Jew eyes?), the audience gave Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Merchant 15 echoing curtain calls...
Unfortunately, the cries for change generally issue from those dissatisfied with the results of the present system, not those who oppose the system itself. But an increasingly vocal minority is now prepared to junk a tiring method of assignment that consistently produces inequitable distributions and unsatisfactory results...