Word: oratorio
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Gaucherie & Tears. A special memorial symphony was written by Roy Harris (an American composer frequently given to writing symphonic paeans to the U.S.) for performance by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London. The University of Indiana chorus prepared a new oratorio, taken from a Nov. 24, 1963, New York Times editorial that began: "The leaden skies of yesterday were like a pall." Sicilian troubadours chanted a musical legend that grew up among the island's villagers after Kennedy died: "With his big heart and full of courage/ He attracted the people with his manner/ And many, many learned...
...shrieks in echoed despair. In a long, fatal moment, the music dies on the slowly fading tremor of a gong. And in that long moment last week, a hushed audience at London's Royal Festival Hall perceived the chilling profundity of Roberto Gerhard's The Plague, an oratorio of terror based on the novel by Albert Camus...
Sunday, March 29 DIRECTIONS '64 (ABC, 2-3 p.m.). Earl Wild's Easter Oratorio conducted by Composer Wild...
Curious Whimper. The 50-minute work, performed without interruption, is more an oratorio than a symphony, with speaker (Bernstein's wife, Actress Felicia Montealegre), soprano (Jennie Tourel), the New England Conservatory Chorus, the Columbus Boychoir and a drastically altered orchestra: 17 string players were crowded off the platform to make way for a percussion section that had to man five timpani, three side drums, a bass drum, four kinds of cymbals, a tam-tam, three bongos, three temple blocks, a wood block, sandpaper blocks, rasp, whip, ratchet, triangle, maracas, claves, tambourine, chimes, glockenspiel, xylophone, vibraphone, celesta, piano and harp...
...RAVINIA (June 27-Aug. 11), on the outskirts of Chicago, operates on the theory that variety is the spice of musical life. Pablo Casals conducting his own oratorio El Pesebre has been followed by Folk Songsters Peter, Paul and Mary conducting 13,934 folkniks into collective rapture. One night jazz holds court, with Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald; another night the classical reigns, as that 20th century master Igor Stravinsky conducts his own Petrouchka suite, the Two Little Suites and Scherzo a La Russe. To add the final touch of diversity, the New York City Ballet will appear...