This week, Choral Fixation features American composers including Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Virgil Thomson (pictured) and Charles Ives. This is choral music, baby, love it or leave it!
Music featured includes:
Samuel Barber: Agnus Dei
Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata BWV 158 "Der Friede sei mit dir,"
David Lang: Evening Morning Day
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Tantum ergo, K. 142 (Therefore we)
Aaron Copland: In the Beginning
Hector Berlioz: Te Deum, Op. 22: Tibi omnes (Hymn)
Virgil Thomson: Hymns from the Old South
Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria in D major, RV 589
Leonard Bernstein: Candide: Make Our Garden Grow
Charles Ives: The Celestial Country: Glories on Glories
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The opening work today needed no introduction. It was......, hmmmm, no, that's not it......, some church music?
Please do not be so presumptuous. Even after I read the program, I still do not know the work. About the only piece you can get away without introducing is maybe Beethoven's 5th. Maybe the 1812 if it's not breakfast time.
I'm crazy about Choral Fixation - what a brilliant idea for early Sunday afternoons. But please give the music of David Lang a rest. It's nicely constructed but unfailingly depressing.