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Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum. Mozart: Motets and Missa Solemnis in C, K, conducted by F. John Adams at 8:30 p.m. in St. Paul's Church, Bow and Arrow Sts. in Cambridge, with the Mozart Festival Orchestra. Tickets $3 and $2. Information...
...Saturday, F. John Adams and the Collegium Musicum will perform Bach's B-Minor Mass, perhaps the greatest mass ever written (sorry Missa Solemnis fans...
Cambridge Musica Antigua. Street songs of 1535; Arcadelt: Missa Noe-Noe. Free. Sunday, April...
...were not written by Americans. The book, for example, includes the work of Al Jolson ("California Here I Come") but ignores that of Wolfgang Mozart ("Symphony No. 39 in E flat," "The Marriage of Figaro"). Nowhere in the songbook is the music of Ludwig van Beethoven ("The Fifth Symphony," "Missa Solemnis"), another talented foreigner. In fairness to editor Michael Scheff, it must be noted that Beethoven disliked the telephone and refused to compose for it. (Late in his life, Beethoven is reported to have smashed his quill down on his writing table and shouted, "This damn phone is no damn...
Composed when Beethoven, never a particularly graceful vocal composer, had long been deaf, the Missa Solemnis reflects its composer's implacable unwillingness to make allowances for performers' limitations. The soprano part, abounds with sustained Forte. As and B flats. Often called upon to sing Fortissimo for long passages, Adams's choir coped with their hard-to-negotiate vocal lines courageously, and by and large, successfully. The balance was usually fairly good, with the men tending to outweigh the women at times. A large measure of the success of this performance was due to the sensitivity with which the choir responded...