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...groups find a following among students and alumni alike. A following so sizeable that last spring's Missa Solemnis, a joint concert between The Harvard Glee Club, The Radcliffe Choral Society (RCS), and the Collegium Musicum, played to a full Sanders Theater. The Collegium sold out its St. Matthew's Passion performance well in advance. And Glee Club members say they expect a full house of school-spirited students and nostalgic alumni at their traditional Yale Game concert next week...
...secular 20th century, the religious impulse that in the past produced such musical masterworks as Bach's St. Matthew Passion and Beethoven's Missa Solemnis has been in short supply. Many contemporary composers, it seems, regard themselves as too sophisticated to write frankly sacred music, or are simply unmoved by the realm of doctrine or liturgy. At a time when nothing is too shocking to be put onstage, spirituality has replaced sexuality as the last taboo...
...English masse, festival mass, from Late Latin missa, eucharist, possibly deriving from phrases such as Itemissa est, "Go, it is the dismissal...
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis (Soprano Anna Tomova-Sintow, Alto Patricia Payne, Tenor Robert Tear, Bass Robert Lloyd, London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Colin Davis conductor, Philips; 2 LPs). Under Davis, Beethoven's great Mass moves majestically from the solemn opening Kyrie to a troubled Agnus Dei, in which timpani and trumpets dramatically evoke man's troubled state, before the Mass ends on a serene note. The performance is both spiritually and musically intense, and the chorus sings like the heavenly hosts...
...this weekend, Collegium will perform some of the finest of the mixed choral music ever composed. The formidable ensemble will sing the young Mozart's Missa Solemnis, Sancta Maria, Litaniae Lauretanae, Kyrie K. 323, Qualite Primum Regnum, and Venite Populi...