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...have sung in it has swerved little from the standard of taste and precision established 50 years ago. Tone quality and balance vary from year to year, but the singing groups are always `neat" and last night the Choral Society demonstrated this quality again, while ranging from Pergolesi's Stabat Mater to Kodaly's folk songs...
Monotony will easily creep into any setting of the Stabat Mater, since this long, grieving text for Good Friday offers little opportunity for the composer to vary tempo and feeling. Pergolesi made the job even harder for himself by writing his piece for soprano, alto and small chamber orchestra, very limited resources indeed, and his attempts to introduce contrasts succeed only partially. Because the chorus shared the 13 sections with the soloists in this performance, their refreshing fullness of tone overcame the monotony of the original score with a tasteful and perceptive arrangement...
...AFTERNOON CONCERT--Bach-Italian Concerto; Prokoviev-Symphony No. 7; Rossini-Stabat Mater; Mozart-Quartet No. 21, K 575; Ravel-Le Tombeau de Couperin; Torelli-Concerto Grosso Opus 8, No. 3; Beethoven Sonata No. 1 for Cello...
...Kallinikoff-Symphony #2 in A minor (Per); Bach-Chromatic Fantasy & Fuge in D minor (Per); Pergolesi-Stabat Mater (D); Mozart-Quartet #14 in G major (C); Bernstein-Age of Anxiety (C); Handel-Trio Sonata in E for Flute, Violin, Bassoon, Harpsichord (HSLP...
...president of Pennsylvania to 82. Noah Webster did a new edition of his dictionary at 82, was busy on yet another when he died at 84. Verdi was nudging fourscore when he composed Otello and Falstaff, had passed the mark when he wrote his most diapasonal sacred scores, a Stabat Mater and a Te Deum...