Word: magnificat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gave Dufay's Magnificat in the Eighth Mode a more forceful interpretation than the other old works on the program. Had her treatment been more Gregorian and less like Bach, I think she would have achieved a more impressive effect. Robert Gartside's tenor solo had a harshness quite congenial with the mystical quality of the work; in chorus parts, however, his strong voice too often stands out over all others...
Bach: Sacred Arias (Carol Brice, contralto, with the Columbia Broadcasting Concert Orchestra, Daniel Saidenberg conducting; Columbia, 4 sides). The Agnus Dei and Qui Sedes from the B Minor Mass, and two arias from the Magnificat, warmly sung by a Negro of considerable talent, who is not yet a Marian Anderson. Recording: good...
...adapted, but I don't like to - it's so perfect." With the air of a man piously renouncing a chance for a fast buck he adds: "I'd never touch Bach. There are a couple of themes in the St. Matthew Passion and the Magnificat -but I wouldn't touch them...
Making its first trip for this term, the Glee Club will sing at Wheaton College tonight, with Bach's "Magnificat" as its main selection. They will also appear tomorrow at Connecticut College in New London, and present a concert in Sanders Theatre March 26 in co-operation with the Radcliffe Choral Society...
...blitz pregnancy, 2) her mother's imminent death (from cancer). The double blow brings Claudia from empty-headed infantilism to the threshold of maturity. Some cinemaddicts may feel that one of life's more solemn mysteries is sold at cut rate by Claudia's magnificat when she finds she is about to have a baby: "God is swell...