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Together with Beetheven's "Missa Solemnis," sounds of "knit one, purl two," can be heard around Glee Club haunts these days as the singers open fire on Hitler with a "knit sweators for Britain" campaign...
...Symphony Hall, Liszt's Faust is to be performed on March 28 and 29. One month later, on April 27, the Missa Solemnis by Beethoven will be sung with Radcliffe. The last of the three appearances will be at one of the annual Pops concerts later in the spring...
Beetheven's "Missa Solemnis in D will be the feature of the program, in addition to this major choral work, other numbers are being prepared for intermediate concerts...
...Requiem the singers face a problem quite different from any they have met in a work of major proportions in recent years. It is probably harder to perform well than either the Beethoven Missa Solemnis or the Bach St. Matthew's Passion. Though the latter are physically more difficult, they are comparatively clear-cut in their problems of nuance and phrasing. They are not particularly intimate in their sentiments; that is, there is a certain broadness about them which lends itself to interpretation by groups almost as well as by individuals. In the Requiem, however, the expression is much more...
Buxtehude: Missa Brevis, and Johann Hermann Schein: Motet "Die Mit Tranen Säen" (Motet Singers, Paul Boepple conducting; Musicraft: 4 sides). In 1700, grand old man of European music was a Swedish composer and organist named Dietrich Buxtehude. His quaint, archaic Missa Brevis is as deft and complicated as a Renaissance tapestry. Composer Schein's motet, added for good measure, was written about half a century earlier...