Word: missa
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...Arts Council, Academy of Sciences, and Academy of Music, and as a member of Parliament. Once a sandaled Bohemian, he is now one of Budapest's most elegant dressers, lives in fashionable Andrássy Ut. This fall in London he will conduct his latest major composition, a Missa Brevis, which he completed in a cellar in the last days of the Russian siege of Budapest...
...Samuel Barber. But, instead of picking our noses to find something to grumble about, let us realize that Serge Koussevitzky is a very fine conductor, the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society is a very fine choral group, the Boston Symphony is a superb orchestra, and Beethoven's Missa Solemnis is one of the greatest artistic creations of Western civilization. A good time...
There has been a lot of ink spilled over the grandeur of the Missa. Bulbous-headed little men have gone around spreading the misconception that the Missa isn't really a mass at all, much less a dirty old Catholic mass. Catholic masses are supposed to be sung in monotones by corrupt priests in faraway places. But this is a philosophy; it has a profound message for the initiate and plenty of sex for young and old. As a result of all this drivel, the Missa has been turned in finale furioso of the concert stage and it has been...
...only in so great a performance as that of Koussevitzky's last night that the Missa can transcend such a fog of intellectualism, can transcend the secularism of Symphony Hall, teeming with myriad nobodies feverishly clutching their programs. But by so great a performance it can and did transcend these bonds and become the religious credo that it was meant to be. To explain verbally what this meaning is is quite hopeless. The critic pokes into a piece of music from the outside with a long pointed stick, but he can never get at the real essence. To anyone...
...McKenna's has already received 1000 HMV records, including such choice items as the Schnabel Beethoven Sonata Society sets, the Fischer recordings of the Bach 48 Preludes and Fugues, and songs from the Wintereisse sung by Gerhard Husch; and both of the stores have the Polydor version of the Missa Solemnjs, performed by the Berlin Philharmonic and chorus...