Word: monteverdi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...AFTERNOON CONCERT. Mozart, Don Giovanni Overture; Smetana, Czech polkas and dances; Monteverdi, Ballo delle Ingrate; Schubert, Divertissement a la Hongroise; Stamitz, Sinfonia Concertante in F; Mendelssohn, Quartet 6, opus 44; Poulenc, Aubade; Poot, Octet...
...Music of the Baroque. Survey of styles of composition within the Age of Monteverdi and Bach...
...Callaway set such a high standard with last year's staging of Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos that one critic feared listeners would expect a triumph every time. In fact there have been many triumphs, including standout productions of Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte and Monteverdi's Orfeo. Audience response matched the performances: paid season subscriptions rose from 322 in 1957 to nearly 2,000 this season...
Composer Shapero contributes a jazz arrangement of a Monteverdi chaconne. Entitled No Green Mountains (a play on Monteverdi's name), it holds its baroque flavor and allows for some intriguing solo-trumpet embroidery on the main theme. Most successful work is Transformation, by Composer Schuller, who is both the first horn player of the Metropolitan Opera and a sometime player in jazz combos. His tautly constructed piece opens with a wistful theme, gradually begins to swing, gives way to free improvisation and a swelling riff in the wind instruments. All the pieces have their fascinating moments, but they seem...
...Thompson's "Fanfare for Chorus" especially commissioned by Schmidt for the Chorus. Other pieces are excerpts from Purcell's "Come Ye Sons of Art Away," Brahms' "Tafellied," Palestrina's "Surgere Amica Mea," Mozart's Cantata K. 108 "Regina Coeli," Vaughan Williams' "In Windsor Forest," and the complete performance of Monteverdi's madrigal, "Hor Ch'el Ciel." Accompanists will be Bernard Kreger '59 and James Armstrong...