| 单词 | chorale |
| 例句 | The prisoners saying a chorale, they sing in parts, and it sounds almost as if there were no voices, but an organ far away on the moor. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Luther accordingly had collected numerous popular contemporary folk tunes, given them holy words, and encouraged these hymns, or chorales, to be sung in Lutheran churches. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In the finale the brass began to show strain, with some unevenly voiced chorales, but the sense of elation in the final measures was palpable — and, for this listener, enviable. Alan Gilbert Conducts the New York Philharmonic 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Yet the songs also tend to metamorphose as they go, starting out perky and pointillistic and ending up, perhaps, in a brass-section chorale or a brawny rock guitar riff. Playlist: Teen, Jorge Drexler and Secret Sisters Have New Albums 2014-04-25T19:44:43Z For example, Wagner places the first scene inside a church in Nürnberg, where parishioners are singing a sturdy chorale. Music Review: Reimagining Wagner’s ‘Meistersinger’ at Salzburg Festival 2013-08-05T21:45:01Z String crescendos swelled gently with a single glockenspiel note at their peak; brasses or woodwinds formed chorales; an oboe or a flute offered a countermelody. Music Review: Mary Chapin Carpenter Performs Her Latest Songs in Concert 2014-03-02T23:26:25Z The chorus brought a beautifully blended sound to the chorales, capturing the texts’ reverent tone. Review | Washington Bach Consort starts strong but hits a wall in its season finale 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z But the chorale returns before the work sinks to its peaceful close. Prom 57: Tonhalle Orchestra Z?rich/Zinman ? review 2011-08-28T14:54:45Z An impish Eckardt piece led into a reflective Bach chorale prelude. Two Pianists, Two Recitals, Two Deeply Personal Statements 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z By way of contrast, Mr. Jacobs separated these bookends with four of Brahms’s mellow chorale preludes from Opus 122, his last works. Almost as Much to Watch as to Hear: Mighty Organ Pieces 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z The chorales respond to the unfolding events of Jesus’ betrayal, trial and crucifixion as a community. Review | Conductor Matthew Dirst leads Washington Bach Consort in St. John Passion 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z So it was disconcerting to hear Bachanalia open its 24th season on Wednesday night at Merkin Concert Hall with such an ineffective performance of two chorale preludes by Bach. Music Review: Bachanalia at Merkin Concert Hall - Review 2011-12-31T00:30:21Z This weekend sees two local chorales shine a light on the British composer’s work for voices. Celebrate choral Britten with Esoterics, Seattle Pro Musica 2013-12-05T20:41:59Z SAT Rainier Chorale cabaret, dinner, silent auction to fund the chorale and college vocal arts scholarships, 6:30 p.m. Community calendar 2011-10-26T23:24:10Z This melodically sturdy chorale, a musical collaboration with David Farrell Melton, was a welcome reminder that spring is upon us. Review: Shaina Taub, Prolific Earth Mother, and Friends 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z The group can rise to a mighty clamor in crowd scenes, but its most remarkable effort on Thursday came in the chorale immediately following the death of Jesus: hushed, sensitive and beautiful. Review: Bach Passions in New York 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z The chorale seeks members "with significant choral experience," according to the symphony. Seattle Symphony Chorale sets auditions 2010-08-20T20:05:00Z The piece ended with another appearance of the acoustic bird-chirping and a gentle chorale hummed by the Metropolis members. Music takes over every inch of the Phillips Collection 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z He needs to be seen in an environment that presents him not as a virtuoso soloist but as the master of the massed chorale, and that’s what Mr. Rugoff and Ms. Hoptman have done. Art Review: A Mind Where Picasso Meets Looney Tunes 2011-01-27T22:41:49Z There were echoes of Bach chorales in the mellow brass and the calm strands of counterpoint in the strings. Simon Rattle Conducts Schumann With Berlin Philharmonic 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z The group retained freshness because of the “stunning musicianship of these singers, whose vocal abilities equal or surpass that of any Bach chorale,” the music writer James Gavin said in an interview after Swingle’s death. Ward Swingle, musician who made Bach swing, dies at 87 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z The piece develops through seven distinctly coloured sections, the most arresting being a slow canon eerily expressed as phantom harmonics by the strings, and concludes, in true Bachian style, with a masterfully harmonised chorale. RLPO/Wigglesworth ? review 2010-11-23T22:20:00Z The beginning of the work, in particular, is awash in chorales, fugues, agitated crowd scenes and narratives obviously modeled on Bach. Music Review: Tritle Leads Oratorio Society in ?Paulus? 2010-05-11T22:12:00Z Along with Bach's English Suite No. 3 in G minor and three Bach chorales transcribed for piano, her program includes Schumann's Fantasiestucke, Op. Pianist Simone Dinnerstein brings her brand of Bach to Seattle 2011-01-06T22:08:07Z The way, in the opening, that the theme is presented with this chorale. The Music of More: A Young Pianist Plays a Modern Master 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z Before that, Michael Conley conducted the chorale, a proficient volunteer chorus that recently concluded its 40th-anniversary season, and the Festival Chamber Ensemble in two poetic American works. Music Review: Washington Square Music Festival With West Village Chorale 2012-07-11T21:56:11Z But at age 10 I knew it wasn't good enough in the same way that I knew that singing a Bach chorale in church was. Janet Baker: A life in music 2012-07-13T21:54:02Z Opener Put the Gun on the Floor is a synth-heavy industrial fanfare complete with chorale. New band of the day – Big Black Delta (No 1,332) 2012-08-16T15:21:42Z When he sang the last chorale at his first concert of the “John,” he felt “a totally unexpected spiritual experience, but also an unexpected sensitive experience,” he said. A Rising Conductor Who’s ‘Not Just a Pair of Hands’ 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z In “A Quiet Place” the ribbons and glitter are gone: the music is jagged and fractured, with polyphonic chorales and jazzy burlesques that explode in bursts of dissonance. ?A Quiet Place? Of Dysfunction And Dystopia 2010-10-22T08:06:00Z The chorale sounded fine throughout, and the orchestra played with commitment, apart from a few rough edges and intonation problems. Murry Sidlin Conducts ‘Defiant Requiem,’ a Tribute to Defiance With Verdi 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z “In terms of the deployment of forces, the amount of players and the amount of singers in the chorale, that won’t be different than last year at Seattle Symphony,” he says. Maestro to embrace the theatrical side of ‘Messiah’ for SSO 2012-12-13T22:15:11Z The crowd howling for Christ's death sounds waspish rather than violent when there are only four singers, though the chorales have an introverted, devotional purity. St John Passion | Classical review 2010-03-23T23:00:00Z Neither this nor the Bach chorale the group played as a delicate encore was quite enough to erase the sense of vulnerability that emanated from the stage. Emerson Quartet inspires affection, which it needed Thursday night 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Ms. Soper’s audaciously eclectic score deftly blends hints of everything from Renaissance vocal music to churchly chorales to sassy show songs to piercing modernism. Opera/Classical Music Listings for Sept. 12-18 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z The most moving moments arise from his use of black American spirituals like “Steal Away” and “Nobody Knows” as modern equivalents to Bach’s chorales. Music Review: Collegiate Chorale Sings Tippett and Bruckner at Carnegie 2012-02-05T22:40:45Z From the opening phrases to the transcendent finale, the British-born maestro spurred the orchestra, chorale, and three particularly fine soloists forward in a performance that never lost focus or momentum. ‘Gerontius,’ where have you been? Seattle Symphony brings seldom-heard piece to vibrant life 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Most of the tempos approach the stateliness of arena anthems; the arrangements are filled out by strummed guitars and vocal chorales. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-03-07T23:58:25Z At the moment when the march briefly subsides, and an eerie chorale is heard, the sound was veiled and pungent, like some Russian Orthodox choir singing from a distant loft in a cathedral. Mariinsky Orchestra Makes Mahler Russian 2010-10-18T16:07:00Z “Interruptions,” the fourth movement, features dramatic woodwind and brass flourishes, with a chorale linking it to the viola solo and muted trumpets of “Song.” Music Review | New York Philharmonic: The Toe-Tapping Starts at the Podium 2010-02-19T23:15:00Z The chorale took its old name from its first rehearsal space, the Marble Collegiate Church. Collegiate Chorale, Under a New Name, Is Teaming Up With City Center 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Hong, who conveyed the work’s quirky theatrical and musical elements with aplomb, finally took his seat, the power struggle among the players continuing through a chorale whose lush contours were quickly shattered. Review: Axiom Displays Its New-Music Range at Alice Tully Hall 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z “Illusion,” written by Ms. Minogue and Mr. Price, echoes the chorale of “Like a Prayer.” Critics? Choice: New CDs: New music from Alejandro Escovedo, 3OH!3, Kylie Minogue 2010-07-04T21:55:00Z The eclectic, audacious score — for vocal soloists, chamber orchestra, rock band — combines angular modernism, ’60s-style rock, echoes of Weill, hints of Edwardian ballads, riffs on Bach chorales and more. Classical Playlist: Bach, Haydn, Seattle Symphony and More 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Far more intricately produced than its predecessors, “Integrity Blues” features strings, keyboards, vocal chorales and cascades of strummed acoustic guitar. Two decades in, Jimmy Eat World is still all business 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Yet Mr. Masur also captured the hymnal beauty of the recurrent chord passage, which sounded like a sturdy Bach chorale. Music Review: Kurt Masur as a Philharmonic Guest Conductor 2010-05-13T20:30:00Z Price clearly knew she had a good tune in the slow second movement, a hymnlike refrain for brass chorale that she milks for all it’s worth. Review: Without a Note of Beethoven, an Orchestra Shines 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Cuoghi then played and sang all the parts of his corral — or chorale — and assembled the recordings into an ensemble performance. Aural Installations Take Over New Museum 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z In essence, "Sea Songs" attained its greatest impact when Gailloreto was playing saxophone alongside the strings and chorale. A rocky premiere for Gailloreto's ambitious 'Sea Songs' 2011-03-20T14:40:00Z The music shifts uncomfortably between high rapture and wary fear, as inklings of secure chorales dissolve in trembles and unwindings, collapses and sighs. Review: Works by Stefano Gervasoni at Miller Theater 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z An alluring tapestry of hazy brass chorales, mysterious wind solos, shimmering textures and otherworldly waves of sound, the work ebbs and flows between languid and tempestuous moods, its subtleties vividly illuminated by the Finnish ensemble. Esa-Pekka Salonen With Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra 2012-11-25T00:50:05Z And just as the atonality of the Pintscher melts in its concluding bars, the Berg ends with a transfiguring set of variations on a Bach chorale. Music Review | New York Philharmonic: At Avery Fisher Hall, Modernism and Egyptian Mythology 2010-03-19T22:13:00Z After turning to Bach’s choral works in the 1960s and forming her chorale, Ms. Moyse became famous for her slow, demanding approach to molding singers. Blanche Moyse, Music School Founder, Dies at 101 2011-02-15T07:30:06Z The wandering flute and sturdy trombone chorale broke into tidal waves of sound from the whole orchestra in the finale, a microcosm of the varied journey everyone had taken that evening. Review: Trilling birds and a sedate waltz, expertly delivered by Serkin at the SSO 2011-02-11T23:25:06Z I’m including two pieces by Enescu, a chorale and a “carillon nocturne,” which is very interesting, especially considering it was written by someone who is not known for his pianistic production. From a Historic Piano Duel to a Finger-Blurring New Album 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z Each movement flows along inevitably, but with framing devices—a falling chord progression, a snarling brass chorale—which set up expectations that, in turn, invite surprise. Nico Muhly at His Best 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z Or that the mellow chorale played by the woodwinds at the beginning of the slow second movement is obviously inspired by a Russian Orthodox male choir? Music Review: Finding the Soul of Russia Everywhere 2011-04-15T23:00:14Z It builds its long, changeable songs on busy Minimalistic patterns: loops and drones, overlapping guitar and keyboard lines, contrapuntal vocals that can turn into ethereal chorales. Music Review: Restraint Layered Over Scales of Expression 2010-12-03T01:08:00Z The first movement, with its bold, jagged theme played in string proclamations with woodwind chorales and bursts of brass, was excellent. New York Youth Symphony Plays Copland’s Symphony No. 3 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Her chorale inspired lavish praise, not only for its musicianship but also for the direct, heartfelt quality of its performances. Blanche Moyse, Music School Founder, Dies at 101 2011-02-15T07:30:06Z From both Handel and Bach, Tippett adopted a template of narrative recitative, contemplative arias, descriptive choruses and — specific to Bach’s Passions — familiar chorales. Into The Music: Michael Tippett?s ?Child of Our Time? Fits With Winter 2012-01-29T04:39:18Z While balances and audibility were inevitably affected by the amplification and background noise, the bittersweet melodies unfolded with soulful élan; the brass chorales in the finale sounded strong and clear. Music Review: New York Philharmonic in Central Park 2012-07-17T23:05:18Z Philip Glass’s taped music is manipulative to the extreme, climbing in the finale to that worst Hollywood-soundtrack shtick, a chorale of heavenly voices; and Ms. Tharp’s vocabulary is relentlessly big and forceful. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater Returns to City Center - Review 2011-11-09T22:54:34Z They addressed the straightforward, subdued chorales with a velvety tone and precisely calibrated balances. Music Review: Commemorating Bach, Holiday and a Conductor 2010-12-24T22:14:22Z Finally the entire company reprises the “Almighty Father” chorale. Is ‘Mass’ Leonard Bernstein’s Best Work, or His Worst? 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Schubert’s themes are woven through the work, which concludes with a beautiful chorale. Music Review: Reliving Schubert?s Classic Tussle With Death 2010-10-18T22:29:00Z The end, beginning with the crowning of David’s son Solomon is intensely effective, and the death of David is accompanied by a wind chorale with the clear harmonies of a spring morning. Music Review: Manhattan School of Music in ‘King David’ and Stravinsky’s Mass 2014-04-07T20:32:11Z The quartet performed an encore, a Danish song of spring, Mr. Sorensen announced, arranged almost like a chorale and played with uncannily blended and tender sound. Music Review: Danish String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall 2014-02-10T22:22:33Z Now and then, a fleeting passage from the anthem emerges in plush harmonies, like a cosmic chorale. Sphinx Virtuosi and Catalyst Quartet at Carnegie Hall 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z As beautifully shaped as the chorales were, it was the vitality of the choruses that carried the evening. Review | Bach Consort goes full-fanfare in a crisp if orchestrally weak “Christmas Oratorio” 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z Both derive their forms from Bach: Nobody Knows, for trumpet and orchestra, is a chorale prelude, Tippett's oratorio a contemporary Passion. Prom 25: BBCSO/Robertson – review 2012-08-02T10:49:49Z One of the most enduring mysteries that Johann Sebastian Bach left for us comes in the form of his “Orgelbüchlein,” a collection of chorale preludes for organ. Finishing Bach’s Organ Music, With Help From 118 Composers 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z Trumpet players of the Festival orchestra and the Festival chorus performed a chorale from his "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg" for several hundred people. Wagner's 200th anniversary gets an oil-themed "Ring" 2013-07-25T14:42:10Z Wordless interludes illustrated verses by Ezra Pound, a flicker of a chorale evoking the text from his “Cantos:” “Borne into the tempest, black cloud wrapping their wings.” Review: A Dark, Haunting Work by Michael Hersch Gets a Premiere 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z Whitehead’s own “Orgelbüchlein” project was inspired by a 17-year-old student of his who wrote an “Orgelbüchlein”-style chorale prelude on the English carol “Of the Father’s Heart Begotten” about 15 years ago. Finishing Bach’s Organ Music, With Help From 118 Composers 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z But he could also exercise notable restraint, as in “I stand by thy manger bed here,” a chorale in the sixth cantata on Friday. Music Review: Christmas Oratorio at St. Paul’s Chapel 2013-01-06T22:28:27Z But we enter another world in the second movement, which begins with a muted, austere chorale for strings that becomes a backdrop for the piano’s questioning, eerie melodic phrases. Music Review: Budapest Festival Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-30T22:45:27Z Skirball on Thursday night and named after the opening words of a Martin Luther chorale: “In the midst of life, we are in death.” Review: A Choreographer Finds Her Bliss in Bach 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z After a quizzical opening and a strong statement of the main theme there are stretches of fitful counterpoint, brass chorales and ruminative passages that take you by surprise. Music Review: Simon Rattle and Berlin Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall 2012-02-26T21:18:46Z Perhaps it takes an Austrian genius like Harnoncourt to understand the Fifth: his recording takes on a mystical air, with the first-movement Adagio-Allegro transformed into a dream sequence of marches and chorales. Daniel Barenboim and the Music of Anton Bruckner 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z His phantom chorales, he said, are a way of looking beyond himself. Serpentwithfeet’s Music Is Otherworldly. But His Message Is Down to Earth. 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z At one point, Mr. Campbell recalled, Mr. Tao played a Bruckner chorale that, put through the software Ableton, sounded like “a chorus of anime characters.” Conrad Tao Was Never Just Another Prodigy 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z The Messiaen unfolded in shifting musical episodes with blocks of thick harmonies; modal strands of overlapping plainchant; chorales spiked with dissonance yet awesomely angelic. Music Review: A Slide Show for the Ear, Given by Emanuel Ax 2011-04-29T21:40:52Z The buoyant, elegantly shaped orchestral sound meshed beautifully with the lithe, immaculate and colorful singing of the chorus, which expressively conveyed the drama and sorrow of the chorales. Critic?s Notebook: Two ?Passions,? With Two Very Different Effects 2011-04-17T22:14:02Z By far the longest section of this 45-minute work is the third and final one, “Icy Variations,” which stretches a Bach-style chorale theme to glacial expansiveness, wandering through subtle, organic shifts. Planned Before War, a Festival Embraces New Ukrainian Music 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z This concerto is known as a defiant oxymoron, a ravishingly beautiful twelve-tone piece — not only is it beautiful, but it incorporates a folk tune and, yes, a Bach chorale. Review | Noseda ends his NSO season with 3 B’s, and a bang 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z At one point there is a kind of fractured chorale, full of brassy slides and swelling strings. Music Review: Clash! Bang! Clink! Went the Orchestra 2010-10-08T17:47:00Z Yet the piece settles into a dense, mystical chorale. Marino Formenti, Fully Engaged, at NY Phil Biennial 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z After the murky opening measures of the music, when a chorale theme emerged, the chords were shrouded in magical mists of strings and orchestral sonorities. Music Review: Finding the Soul of Russia Everywhere 2011-04-15T23:00:14Z But for a conductor to trust the music to tell its drama is a rare act of altruism, and by the final chorale the impact was profound. BBCSSO/Volkov - review 2011-01-31T18:04:33Z Its shimmering string chorales, played with commitment in its New York premiere, at times recalled Samuel Barber and were punctuated by dissonant shadings, dramatic outbursts and eerie writing for winds and celesta. Music Review: Oberlin Conservatory Plays at DiMenna Center and Carnegie 2013-01-21T22:22:40Z Bax did rather better, making an imposing arrangement of one of the organ works, the Fantasia in G, while Vaughan Williams's sumptuously harmonised chorale and chorale prelude is the pick of the bunch. A Bach Book for Harriet Cohen, etc 2010-09-02T21:00:00Z The choristers, facing Sachs and the audience, sing a stirring chorale in tribute to this decent, modest man, a cobbler, and hail him in full-voiced salutations. Crowds Define Opera. They’re Also Keeping It From Returning. 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z The exuberant Howard Moody rehearsed the audience in the final chorale of the Easter cantata Christ lag in Todesbaden so that we could play our part as Bach's congregations would have done. Nabucco; Bach Marathon; Tine Thing Helseth, Kathryn Stott – review 2013-04-06T23:06:25Z The texts for both oratorios are taken directly from the Luther Bible, sung in recitative form but commented upon via arias and chorales. SSO, Pacific MusicWorks each to put on a Bach Passion 2014-02-20T19:58:01Z From his eloquent shaping of the Lutheran chorale “Ein feste Burg” at the outset, Mr. Minkowski seeks out the music’s expressive potential. Music: 'Les Hugenots,' Making Operatic History Again 2011-06-21T11:21:41Z Lang borrows Bach's format of entwining a tragic narrative with a reflective commentary; though the vocal writing owes more to medieval plainchant and the pulse of minimalism than Lutheran chorales. David Lang 2010-05-04T20:45:00Z In the most telling deployment, four singers quietly sang the first verse of the chorale “Who has struck you thus,” then the full complement all but shouted the second verse: “I, I and my sins.” A Conductor’s Falsetto: This Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z The work fit the chorale like a glove. Review | Washington Master Chorale shines in concert of works by 4 living composers 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z Amid them, Ms. Calder’s vocal lines hop around, with gaps that welcome countermelodies and cross-rhythms, while the clarity of her voice lets her layer it into chorales that only grow airier as they thicken. Music: Music by Crooked Fingers, Cave, Kathryn Calder and Jane?s Addiction 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z And the sometimes inane lyrics of “Tell Me Why” arrive in waves of an Auto-Tuned chorale. Critics? Choice: CDs by M.I.A. and Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse 2010-07-11T22:31:00Z And the cast deserves medals for concentration — especially when they turn into a cacophonous chorale from different theatrical dimensions. Myth and mirth take the stage at Oregon Shakespeare fest 2012-07-19T21:29:02Z But the conductor’s steadfast refusal to linger robbed key moments of grandeur, most crucially the magical lead-in to the finale’s main theme and the climactic brass chorale. Pianist and conductor diverge, clash during their BSO debuts 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z Andrew Keeling’s chorale, for example, took inspiration from reggae; James O’Donnell contributed a deft Brahms imitation; the baritone and composer Roderick Williams chose to reflect the quotidian in what Whitehead described as a “wonky tango.” Finishing Bach’s Organ Music, With Help From 118 Composers 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z But there he was last year, at the First Lutheran Church in Boston, playing Bach’s “Clavierübung,” Part III, an imposing opus consisting of 21 chorale preludes bracketed by the glorious “St. Anne” Prelude and Fugue. Early Music Festival: NYC Opened Its Inaugural Season 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z The music flows in episodic waves, with sustained brassy harmonies that are like cosmic chorales, bursts of fitful instrumental writing, spans of jagged counterpoint, and — a Messiaen trademark — skittish birdcalls. Music Review: Hamburg Symphony Orchestra at Roulette 2012-01-25T00:10:49Z In this elaborate miniature, an eerie chorale of vocal harmonies carries the names of places in France; then guitar counterpoint takes over, sketching a melody just once before letting it fall away. David Crosby’s 15 Essential Songs 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z Both stepped forward for solo songs and shared harmony chorales with Mr. Plant, who also backed Mr. Miller, singing about the Devil’s daughter, on harmonica. Music Review: Offering a Range of Songs, While Prizing Spirit Over Style 2011-01-31T23:59:58Z Cabaret combines with post-Bergian lyricism before Ullmann closes the work with a Bach chorale, under which slowing drum taps suggest fading heartbeats. The Emperor of Atlantis – review 2012-10-09T16:49:30Z Ecstatic rising tumults of keyboards and chorales is what Kyhlberg trades in, and no matter how hard he might try, that would appear to be his default compositional and recording style. New band of the day – Picture (No 1,334) 2012-08-20T15:56:02Z Standards for obtaining and maintaining membership in the all-volunteer chorale are high. Seattle Symphony Chorale auditions required for newbies, veterans alike 2011-08-18T23:35:05Z Since 2004, these have been meticulously prepared by Mr. Scott, the church’s organist and director of music, right down to the seldom-noted commas in chorale texts, noted here without fussiness. Review: Bach Passions in New York 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z You might know two or three of his chorale preludes. ‘It Has It All’: Taking on a Strange, Immense Piano Concerto 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z “Anthracite Fields,” a five-part oratorio with roots in rock, classical chorales and the avant-garde, may look to the past, but it is anything but nostalgic. As Trump Tries to Revive Coal, an Oratorio Confronts Mining’s Past 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z And near the end, Beatrice and Lucia’s vocal lines quiver and swoop like birds around a low, sober, sonorous chorale. At This Summer’s Aix Festival, the Only Laughter Is Bitter 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z Is the chorale an interloper, or an opportunity missed? New-Music Festival in Chicago Offers the Complicated and the Compelling 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z The vocal music was divided between seven solo singers, one to each line in the choruses and chorales. St John Passion | Classical review 2010-03-23T23:00:00Z Chief among them was solid, thoroughly unified sound in the chorale movements that frame the motet and punctuate its more ornate verses. Music Review: Kent Tritle Directs New Music Series at St. John the Divine 2012-04-01T20:52:56Z But some ensembles transpose the chorales and add them to the D major version. Music Review: Orchestra of St. Luke?s at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-12-16T23:46:53Z They would play something like a dozen pieces each: preludes and fugues, chorales, chorale preludes, sonatas, concerti, variations, and “free” works drawn from Bach’s five decades as a working organist. Bach in New York 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z Mr. Bronfman’s playing radiated warmth, from the zippy playfulness of the first movement to the mystical chorale of the second to the jaunty fugue of the finale. Alan Gilbert Conducts the New York Philharmonic 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z But her set proved that she’s not a studio confection, even though backing tracks reproduced her backing vocal chorales. CMJ 2014: Make That R-Y-N Weaver 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z In the opening measures of the chorale “Es Ist Genug,” the one Berg incorporated into his final work, the Violin Concerto, Bach even anticipates atonality. The Greatest 2011-01-07T16:04:57Z Mazz Swift’s “She Is a Story, Herself” included several exciting moments, such as flitting small melodic ideas that subsided into a graceful chorale, but the piece overall did not feel fully conceptualized. Review: Kronos Quartet Offers a Creative Snapshot of a Global Pandemic 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z The performance conveyed the state of uneasy peace and solemn resignation that arrives when Berg folds a harmonically daring, strangely consoling Bach chorale into the long, final episode of the piece. Bavarian Radio Symphony Performs Brahms and Ligeti 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z The program also included an orchestral transcription of another Bach chorale: Edmundo Villani-Côrtes’s version of “Awake, the Voice Commands,” a showcase for the ensemble’s glowing strings. Music Review: The Power of Bach, the Comfort of Morricone 2010-09-20T23:21:00Z The program also featured Max Reger’s arrangement of a Bach chorale prelude and three Schoenberg Bach orchestrations, including a muddy rendition of the “St. Anne” Prelude and Fugue. Music Review: AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 2011-10-23T21:57:46Z They all bounce cross-rhythms against Ms. Garbus’s voice as it leaps around her melodies, assembles itself into chorales or yodels, yips and ululates. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-04-18T23:45:23Z “When Bad Does Good,” written and produced by Cornell, is a hymn and an argument, begun by sustained organ chords and building to a rock chorale. The Playlist: Unreleased Chris Cornell, and 12 More New Songs 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z The first movement begins tentatively, with hints of a rhythmic figure in the piano’s low register and a fleeting chorale. Music Review: Hungarian Tradition, African Lilt 2011-05-27T23:00:24Z Martinů's Sixth, with its whirring string dissonances and yearning chorales, is one of a handful of great works by a composer better known for quantity than quality. Czech Philharmonic/Gardiner 2010-08-30T10:51:00Z Several chorales give the work a mysterious, stately quality toward the end, but the Devil gets his due, and his triumphal march ends with an eerie drum fadeout. Stravinsky?s Devil, Reignited 2011-06-03T18:21:16Z The rising chorale of pettiness, paranoia and lust can seem overwhelming, but the young Saramago — like his mature counterpart — forces us to look hard at ordinary humans. Book review: ‘Skylight’ by Jose Saramago 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Ax and Mr. Ma offered a richly hued interpretation of the Adagio, whose chorale reflects Mendelssohn’s admiration of Bach. Music Review: Perlman, Ma and Ax in Live From Lincoln Center 2010-05-06T21:00:00Z Here the strings eluded Mr. Maazel’s grasp a few times in the Richard Strauss works — “Death and Transfiguration” and the “Rosenkavalier” Suite — though the brass chorales were utterly meticulous: beautifully weighted and balanced. Music Review: Lorin Maazel Leads the Vienna Philharmonic 2012-03-05T23:22:05Z No one left the hall prematurely during an account abetted by lush strings; lucid woodwind solos, burnished brass and horn chorales; scampering percussion; and passages of crystalline transparency. Music Review: New Jersey Symphony Orchestra at Prudential Hall 2013-01-06T21:57:01Z The whirling figurations, however, are underpinned by a series of sustained chords in brass and strings, and what we actually experience is a slow-moving chorale, fantastically and wildly embroidered. Prom 57: Tonhalle Orchestra Z?rich/Zinman ? review 2011-08-28T14:54:45Z Under her direction, in just 15 minutes, the disparate assortment of gruff male voices was transformed into a heavenly chorale. Rhiannon Giddens Celebrates ‘Freedom Highway’ in the Big House 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z This beautifully modest piece unfolds with a melody in steady notes and tender, pungent harmonies, almost like an Asian chorale. Review: Kronos Quartet Fosters Contemporary Works for Strings 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z In both the elaborated choruses and the more straightforward four-part chorales, or hymns, German diction was excellent and, most important, deeply expressive of the libretto’s often-fraught text. Review | Conductor Matthew Dirst leads Washington Bach Consort in St. John Passion 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z Passages like the chorale of winds near the end — in tune here, but not transcendently transparent — mark the difference between a very fine orchestra and a spectacular one. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Strauss Humblebrag 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z Another remarkable number is the chorale “Almighty Father.” Is ‘Mass’ Leonard Bernstein’s Best Work, or His Worst? 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Two years later, the chorale performed on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial as part of the funeral procession of then-Sen. Norman Scribner, who founded D.C. Choral Arts Society, dies at 79 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z The master chorale's stirring rendition of the traditional spiritual "Elijah Rock" summoned a well-deserved, rousing ovation. L.A. Master Chorale finale time-warps from 17th century to 'Space Odyssey' to Depeche Mode 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z The vocal forces were huge — the 180 voices of the chorale augmented by the 60 voices of the Montgomery College Chorus — and some of their attacks were a little like tsunamis. National Philharmonic Chorale brings two hefty works to the stage 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z Or “by” César Franck, whose 1st chorale in E Major got a somewhat rambling, discursive performance? Carpenter energizes Kennedy Center with irreverent organ performance 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z But the opening chorale was delivered with ascetic concentration and the middle movement with engaging simplicity. Music Review: Midori and Ozgur Aydin at Carnegie Hall 2012-11-08T22:40:51Z All of them swirl together in “Intensity,” which begins with one of her sustained, rippling vocal chorales and works its way up, in gathering wavelets, toward something like funk and then melts back into reflection. New Music: Albums From Real Estate, Linda Perhacs and Nick Waterhouse 2014-03-03T23:08:37Z The chorale had a program of its own on Sunday morning conducted by James Bagwell. Critic’s Notebook: Bard Music Festival Focuses on Works in France and U.S. 2013-08-19T22:00:34Z They had clearly been well prepared, but the chorales were inevitably muddied by the echo. Critic?s Notebook: Two ?Passions,? With Two Very Different Effects 2011-04-17T22:14:02Z Another reminder, of the reason in-person concerts are still a distant dream, is a section that follows a lyrical quotation of a Bach chorale, in which chattering winds produce aerosols captured on camera. The San Francisco Symphony Plunges Into a New World 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Hear it with Gardner, the orchestra, the orchestra chorale and soloists at 7:30 p.m. 4 classical-music events to catch after Thanksgiving 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z Bells and choruses, human voices, like in the second movement of this sonata, it begins with bells, and there is a chorale. She Wrote for the Piano’s Extremes: Bronfman on Ustvolskaya 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Hynd also provides ballroom elegance while slyly injecting other dance modes as well, such as a folk-rich corps sequence for Act II and a rollicking revelers' chorale and can-can for Act III at Maxim's. 'Merry Widow' by turns intoxicating and flat in romantic outing 2011-02-17T14:49:00Z They all are implied in the piece’s nine sections — effectively made 11 by two “Ascension” interludes with the rich harmony of a chorale and the serene lyricism of a hymn. Review: The Danish String Quartet Spins Through Schubert 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z Half symphony, half oratorio, “The Prison” includes this striking chorale prelude, with dark and light in the same bars, at its heart. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2020 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z Those composers include some from Luther’s time and some from our time, and instrumental chorale preludes appear in Swingle Singers-like vocalise, without the insistent perkiness. The 25 Best Classical Music Recordings of 2017 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z It was wonderful to hear the affirming chorales that end each scene in this epic work, which tells of Jesus’ last days and crucifixion, sung with such full-bodied sound and directness. Oratorio Society of New York Performs ‘St. Matthew Passion’ 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z Filigree trills hovered like hummingbirds and quicksilver scales, and delicate grace notes melted into an expressive chorale. Review | Zoltan Fejervari shows off his technique with a program of gems 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Bach’s chorale prelude is picked apart, distorted and transformed in a series of dissonant gestures that, now heated, now wispy, create an irresistible smoky turbulence. Review: Bach, Revisited Series Features Ensemble Signal 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z The second concert began with participation, as Howard Moody rehearsed the audience in the chorale that ends the cantata Christ Lag in Todesbanden. 5 stars for 9-hour Bach Marathon 2013-04-02T10:24:08Z In “Hailstones Don’t Hurt,” a just-broke-up song, Soak decides, “We should move on” over a steadfast slow march, but then multiplies her voice into a chorale that rejoins, “But I don’t wanna.” Review: Soak Exposes Fears and Resolve on Debut Album 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z An unexpected note of optimism is suddenly heard in the finale, which segues from anxious counterpoint to an uplifting Bach chorale played by a solo trumpet. Music Review: Riverside Symphony Performs Works by Takemitsu and Honegger 2014-01-26T21:13:20Z The scholar of religion Albert Blackwell has remarked of Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion” that its “chorales are not dramatic music, but they impart musical drama.” A Soldier Kills a Deaf Boy, and Rebels Respond With a Barricade of Silence 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z Many of these works ingeniously weave chorales through the fabric in one way or another, and the group constantly shifted shape and location to project the contrasting layers most effectively. Review: Vox Luminis Explores Bach’s Family Tree 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z So when you start the beginning of “The Firebird,” the double basses with gut string pizzicato, and then suddenly the chorale of the trombones, with these tiny, trombones — my God! The Conductor Transforming Period Performance 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z Wagner's overture to Tannhäuser was very much a microcosm of the opera: the hurtling bacchanalian music was eclipsed by the godly opening chorale, which grew slowly into an impressive, sustained arc whenever it occurred. RPO/N?zet-S?guin 2010-08-22T11:40:00Z Mahler seized on the Wagner for its heady mix of stately march music, industrious counterpoint, soaring chorale tunes and good-humored busyness. Music Review: Embracing the Ambiguity of Mahler?s Seventh 2011-02-24T23:27:09Z Most memorable to me were the interventions of the ensemble: patriotic anthems at first, later surrendering to letter-writing fugues and a gossamer chorale about sleep. Crossing Cultures, and Genres, at the Glimmerglass Festival 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z The music becomes darker, more elusive and textured, with each variation as instruments enter, building steadily in intensity until a chorale calms things down, leading to an extended allegro alive with industrious counterpoint. 5 Classical Music Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z She began with a little talk at the piano, playing the themes of the various movements — 14 contrapuncti, as the fugues are called, four canons and a chorale — and discussing their structure. Review: Angela Hewitt Decodes Bach’s ‘The Art of Fugue’ 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Through forlorn analog-keyboard tones — sometimes sounding like a steel drum, or a Wurlitzer organ — Mr. Rende’s playing evoked children’s songs, hymns, chorales, baroque inventions, Robert Wyatt dirges, and pentatonic melodies from Japanese or Ethiopian music. Thomas Morgan’s New Trio Plays at Seeds 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z With catchy melodies and thrumming passages, Tarik O’Regan’s “Triptych” highlighted the chorale’s greatest strengths: a bold, rich sound and sonorous singing that revels in rhythms and diverging harmonies. Review | Washington Master Chorale shines in concert of works by 4 living composers 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z It opens with a searching, angular solo violin theme that insistently repeats to the backdrop of a cascading piano chorale. Pekka Kuusisto/Olli Mustonen – review 2013-04-14T17:12:07Z The orchestra captured both the work’s expansive chorales and its rhythmic vitality, culminating in a majestic finale. Music Review: Saying Farewell to School, With Some Help From Brahms 2011-05-20T21:22:12Z A similarly dark mood pervades the first movement, which sounds as if several cellos were playing a mournful chorale. Classical Recording: Michael Hersch: Sonata No. 1 & 2 2010-04-30T18:41:00Z “Dearest heart,” paraphrasing a Bach chorale, is sung in almost holistic block harmonies. Music Review: The Crossing in ‘The Little Match Girl Passion,’ at the Met 2012-12-24T22:47:20Z Listeners were encouraged to sing along with the hymns and with the chorales throughout the Passion, rendered in English translations, provided in the program along with the music in four parts. Critic?s Notebook: Bach Passions in Performance for Holy Week 2012-04-04T21:56:13Z There are two chorales and two canons, one in multiple tempos. Review: New York Philharmonic Performs Esa-Pekka Salonen’s ‘L.A. Variations’ 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z Some of Mr. Ibrahim’s songs are arranged as chorales, with hymnal voicings for three saxophones and trombone. Playlist: Look Back at a Legend, Then Revisit Disco 2011-04-01T21:50:45Z Hints of brass chorales break through the dejected slow movement. Review: The Philharmonic Hails Sibelius, and Offers Joshua Bell on a Mendelssohn 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z In the ‘Be Our Guest’ number, watch closely for the swimming spoons, the dishes stacked in Eiffel Tower formation, the tankards in chorale. Beauty and the Beast in 3-D: Still an Enchantment 2012-01-12T17:33:27Z There’s also a new element: horn arrangements by Matthew E. White that can be pop fanfares, an elegiac chorale or a plush big band. New Music: New Albums by Mountain Goats, Kurt Elling and Trash Talk 2012-10-09T01:10:07Z It is a revelation, from the incandescence of her Toccata from Widor’s Fifth Symphony to the jazzy angularity of Jean Berveiller’s “Mouvement”; the reverence of her Bach chorale preludes to the fury of her Liszt. She Was an Organist for the Ages 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z From autograph manuscripts that detail titles of the chorales, it’s clear that Bach planned to compose 164 of them, spread throughout the Christian liturgical year. Finishing Bach’s Organ Music, With Help From 118 Composers 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z Instead of vocal-harmony chorales and canons, there are many more straightforward solo lead vocals. 2010-01-30T00:57:00Z The chorale announced Monday that Robert Istad, its assistant conductor for the last 10 years, will succeed Alexander as music director. Pacific Chorale's John Alexander to retire after 45 years 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z Finally, noting that Ives’s birthday is approaching next Thursday, Ms. Hahn rallied her volunteer chorale once more for a hearty rendition of “Happy Birthday.” Music Review: The Violinist Hilary Hahn at the Stone - Review 2011-10-12T21:22:30Z Many of the included sides are impassioned sermons with musical and chorale accompaniment. Box-set highlights: Paramount Records, William Onyeabor, Joni Mitchell 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z Together these good people sing a lovely chorale, their individual voices in harmony with the whole. Review: The Chaos Beneath the Chorale in ‘The Lucky Ones’ 2018-03-31T04:00:00Z The music begins almost like a modernist chorale, with brassy block chords playing in staggered rhythms and halting phrases. Music Review: A Karlheinz Stockhausen Work Has Its North American Premiere 2013-07-19T21:29:24Z In the subdued orchestra overlapping patterns of ascending minor scales create a hypnotic, quietly intense backdrop, pierced by fractured, brassy chords like some cosmic chorale. Music Review: President and Opera, on Unexpected Stages 2011-02-03T17:34:09Z A small group of soloists stated a chorale melody, answered by the chorus, a style in alternation with freer sections of large chorus. Marking Johann Sebastian’s birthday with a tribute to the Bach family 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z They were superb in the closing chorale of Cantata No. 11, which ended the night. Review: Masaaki Suzuki Conducts Young Musicians in Bach 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Yes, danger and the ridiculous seem to walk hand in hand in this chorale of mishaps. ‘Lucky Us,’ by Amy Bloom, America’s Victor Hugo In March, Jacobs played the three pieces Franck wrote in the late 1870s, and the three sprawling, pensive chorales that were the great product of 1890, the year he died. Review: For Franck’s 200th, an Organist Pays Grand Tribute 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z In the two-verse chorale early on Ms. Sorrell silenced the orchestra for the second verse, letting the magnificent chorus sing a cappella to breathtaking effect. Review: Apollo’s Fire Enhances ‘St. John Passion’ 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z As if to balance that, the Sibelius symphony was rife with woodwind and brass chorales; the strings don’t even enter until the 18th measure. The Boston Symphony Finds Surprises and Strengths in New Music 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z There were also three lovely chorale preludes by Brahms, a particular favorite of the patron whose gift continues to finance Trinity’s Concerts at One, Ms. Louprette said, including Pipes at One. Critic’s Notebook: Bach at One and Pipes at One at Trinity’s St. Paul’s Chapel 2012-10-07T20:05:50Z She then closed her eyes to listen to Halls play the uplifting Bach chorale “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring.” An Organ Recital, With a Coronavirus Shot 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z The entry of each new voice felt charged and alive; the first great brass chorale was gripping in its radiance and beauty. Music Review: Mehta Leads Philharmonic in Bruckner - Review 2012-01-13T23:23:17Z It’s more somber in themes and more textured in sound, with synthesizers, acoustic guitar and vocal chorales layered into the punk-minimalist blitz. Review | Japandroids deliver songs of fire and decay. With full-on audience participation. 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z This excellent German vocal quintet presents seven of Martin Luther’s chorales in many versions, typically changing composers from one verse to the next. The 25 Best Classical Music Recordings of 2017 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z This towering late collection of chorale preludes is not entry-level Bach, least of all for those unfamiliar with the chorale tunes themselves. Classical Critics Pick the Top Music Recordings of 2014 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z When he was in the fifth grade, his parents, both teachers, moved the family to Denmark for a year so his father could study the chorale music of Carl Nielsen. ‘Inside Out,’ Pixar’s New Movie From Pete Docter, Goes Inside the Mind 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z The bitter chorale of the opening resurfaces in the terse fourth movement. Classical Recording: Michael Hersch: Sonata No. 1 & 2 2010-04-30T18:41:00Z That couldn’t last forever, though: At the coda of that tarantella finale, here impressively cohesive amid increasingly frantic chorales and unstable runs, Death arrives in a sudden minor-key turn, delivered in grandly Romantic fashion. One Night, Several String Quartet Premieres 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z During that first chorus, the boy choristers stood in a row overlooking the stage as they sang the phrases of the gentle chorale tune that arise from the complex choral writing and instrumental busyness. Berlin Philharmonic Performs 'St. Matthew Passion' at the Park Avenue Armory 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z The structures are elaborate, with vocal chorales and counterpoint blossoming while instrumental timbres transmute from acoustic realism to a psychedelic shimmer and back. Critics' Choice: New albums by Dr. Dog, Sam Amidon, Laura Bell Bundy and Aaron Goldberg. 2010-04-11T21:37:00Z Everything he could turn into song, he did, brilliantly absorbing the story of Tony, a Sicilian immigrant grape farmer, and Rosabella, the much younger bride he obtains through deception, into arias, toe-tappers, recitatives and chorales. Review: ‘The Most Happy Fella,’ Sliced, Diced and None Too Pleased 2021-08-08T04:00:00Z In the place of the expected Christmas carol singalong of December concerts, the Knights asked the audience to sing that chorale, in English, as the final piece. Review | The Knights weave old and new in concert of surprises at Dumbarton Oaks 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Still, during the final statement of the chorale theme at the end of the Brahms, the brasses played with glorious resonance and unforced power. Music Review: Leader and Players, Deeply Bound 2010-12-16T23:06:23Z Luther established his own musical currency in the form of chorales, those hymns in the vernacular. 500 Years Later, the Reformation Is Still Creating Music 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z The chorus captured the harmonic intricacies of chorales with micro-tuned flawlessness. Bach times two: Collegium and Master Chorale double the elation 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z Ms. Near led an a cappella chorale of “Kisses Sweeter Than Wine” as a tribute to their 69-year marriage. Musicians Join in a Seeger Tribute at Lincoln Center 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z The eclectic range of musical styles in the piece, ranging from an Irish jig to a chorale, was mirrored in a staging that combined film with theater. After a 35-year interlude, Kate Bush wows fans with comeback gig 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z Schumann’s music here is a portrait of the awe-inspiring Cologne Cathedral, with a chorale and orchestration that, if articulated correctly, closely resembles the sound of an organ. Review: Gustavo Dudamel Wraps Up a Philharmonic Audition 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Played with the sustaining pedal, the short arpeggio figures turn the prelude into a hazy, lapping chorale. Music Review: András Schiff Plays ‘Well-Tempered Clavier,’ at 92nd Street Y 2012-10-28T21:36:40Z The result is a how-to in advocacy politics, a study in the complexities of identity politics, and a chorale of treasurable voices. Best Art Books of 2021 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z But Martin gives us a biblical meditation rather than a musical drama in the manner of Bach, who alternated passages of urgent recitative and choral outbursts with reflective arias and chorales. music: Passion, Not Hyperbole, in Frank Martin?s ?Golgotha? 2010-07-16T23:38:00Z The orchestral playing was transcendently beautiful, with warm, burnished strings and radiant, weighty brass chorales that were particularly breathtaking. Music Review: A Chance to Hear Bruckner Anew, by Himself and With an Unexpected Partner 2011-07-18T22:00:36Z After intermission Eric Whitacre, who will begin a two-year appointment next season as the master chorale's first artist in residence, took the podium. L.A. Master Chorale finale time-warps from 17th century to 'Space Odyssey' to Depeche Mode 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z Without pause, the Philharmonic then played Schoenberg’s rich yet focused 1922 arrangements of two Bach chorales. Review: Mythical Twins Inspire Music Divided in Two 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z And as I tried to show in the first video for this project, through his chorales alone Bach explored the far reaches of tonal harmony. The Greatest 2011-01-21T14:04:41Z The following year, the chorale’s cover of Toto’s “Africa” went viral and has since been streamed more than 23 million times on its YouTube channel. The choir that saved my life 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z Phil in 1996, has what its composer calls “quasi-folk music,” a kind of folk music of the future, along with a formal chorale and canon, along with an homage to Sibelius. Sonically monumental: Esa-Pekka Salonen's organ concerto plays Disney Hall, where it belongs 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z With rhythmic support from a tabla, Oak’s Hindustani song glides in and around the California chorale as it flows and surges in English and Latin. California's escalating water crisis galvanized composer Reena Esmail's new work 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z She also implemented ambitious touring initiatives, touring the chorale to 18 cities in nine countries before the pandemic. National Symphony Orchestra names Jean Davidson as executive director 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z Robinson-Oturu first heard the chorale when she was 11 and it performed at her church, Tabor Presbyterian in Northwest. Perspective | Veteran singers give voice to memories of the D.C. Youth Chorale 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z She adds: “The chorale helped me gain back a sense of self-confidence that — somewhere along the way — I lost.” The choir that saved my life 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z Supporters at the Wednesday morning parade briefly drowned out a military chorale by chanting "Our flag will never be red!" – a jab at the colors of Lula's Workers' Party. Supporters of Brazil's Bolsonaro gather for military parades, political rallies 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z “We need the storm, we need the whirlwind, and for the nation’s sake, we need the earthquake,” Douglass and the ensemble sing, in the stirring chorale, “We Need a Fire.” Review | In beguiling ‘American Prophet,’ Frederick Douglass lets freedom sing 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z In the wee hours of Saturday morning, one voice after another joined the hallelujah chorale in praise of him. Perspective | The Celtics should be on their way to the title. But … Stephen Curry. 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z They have shown us the playfulness of a soldier, lightheartedly kicking a ball amid the carnage; of another soldier, leading an impromptu chorale. PHOTO GALLERY: 100 days of extraordinary images from Ukraine 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z The chorale offers both an escape and an identity, she offers: “I’m trying to see the world and find things outside of medicine.” The choir that saved my life 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z One recent afternoon here, he was singing “Let My Love Be Heard” in the chorale. Colleges scramble to recruit students as nationwide enrollment plunges 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z He brought to Bach’s big choruses and solemn chorales the grandeur of Greek choruses. The Hamburg Ballet tackles Bach and Bernstein with rich imagery and movement 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z Mr Cope then popped out for a sandwich, and returned to find that the computer had composed 5,000 Bach-inspired chorales. The AI software that could turn you in to a music star 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z “It just feels so good to be right next to each other again,” said Grace Goodman, the chorale’s oldest member at 85. New York City Needs to Sing (While It Can) 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z Sue Fink had hoped this trip would be a bonding experience for the chorale; though she hasn’t said so publicly, she is taking a sabbatical in 2024. The choir that saved my life 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z The sonata ends with a massive movement that wends its way through colorful variations on a Bach chorale tune before trilling itself, in Beethoven’s manner, into a spiritual realm. Review: Star pianist Yuja Wang and celebrated violinist Leonidas Kavakos team up for a transfixing recital 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z The chorale’s director, Sue Fink, coined the term, but a taltos is also a figure from Hungarian mythology — someone with supernatural powers similar to a shaman. Op-Ed: When a woman sings tenor, it's a superpower 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z Many others participated in other extracurricular activities like cheerleading, band, chorale, theater. 80 years later, they still love basketball — and each other 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z It’s right there in the grooves, every clack of clave, doo-wop wail, stealthy saxophone run, chorale explosion, jangle of bells and rat-a-tat percussion breakdown. Listening to Phil Spector: A three-minute thrill ride, then a reckoning with evil 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z The participants performed a short solo piece with a wide range of high and low notes and different styles of playing, including a smooth chorale and a staccato march. Is it safe to strike up the band in a time of coronavirus? 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z The chorale also is launching free audio broadcasts of past performances at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Michael Urie at home, channeling Barbra Streisand: Your weekend quarantine must-watch 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z “Rekondakion’s” source material is a sacred chorale by Estonian composer Pärt. The lost art of deep listening: Choose an album. Lose the phone. Close your eyes. 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z Still, they were true German classicists in the end, raised on Bach fugues and chorales and even insistent that art was the ultimate vehicle of demonstrating order. Review: L.A. Phil embraces the Weimar Republic's disruptive art. Trump protesters do too 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z There are 85 musicians on contract and 50 volunteer members of the chorale. Billings Symphony Orchestra and Chorale gifted building 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z Pacific Chorale Holiday Sing-Along Audience members are invited to raise their voices along with members of the chorale. The week ahead in classical music: 'Salute to Vienna' and more 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z For this pivotal scene, Williams reworks a portentous brass chorale from his score for Oliver Stone’s “Nixon.” Perspective | How John Williams’s Star Wars score pulls us to the dark side 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z Hard rock, heavy metal, pop music, country acts and alternative will complement classical chamber music, orchestras, quartets, chorales and the marching bands of Fourth of July parades. Editorials from around New England 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z Fugue and chorale are evoked as devices to restore peace and order and grandeur. Review: L.A. Phil embraces the Weimar Republic's disruptive art. Trump protesters do too 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z "His chorales always have four voices: each carries their own melodic line, creating a rich harmonic progression when played together," writes Google. Harmonize like composer Bach with Google's first AI Doodle. 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z The orchestra squawks and snorts, a clarinet caterwauls, the piano cartwheels through complex polyrhythms, themes devolve into disjointed practice scales; an attempt at a noble chorale is pitched too high and becomes ridiculous. The Concerto Challenge 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z The Post missed the real story of the phenomenon that is Encore Chorale, now in its 11th year with more than 1,000 singers in just the Washington area, and other chorales around the country. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Empty calendars, full maps and more Ulysses S. Grant 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z The concerto features a solemn chorale and bits of folk song revenants, occasionally shattered by high-pitched woodwinds or percussive explosions of orchestral sound. What does 'crazed virtuosity' sound like? Jennifer Koh delivers her answer with L.A. Chamber Orchestra 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z Schoenberg made marvelously candy-colored orchestrations of two Bach chorales a year later. Review: L.A. Phil embraces the Weimar Republic's disruptive art. Trump protesters do too 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z The skittering, chime-suggestive tones that drive “Sonali” sound like the workings of a coked-up gamelan player, and when, midway through, Stone introduces aural tidbits from a Mozart chorale work, the piece further ascends. California Sounds: Gaby Moreno teams with Van Dyke Parks; Carl Stone unearths some early loop-based beauty; Valley Queen rolls through the city 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z The failed chorale assumes properly grandiose proportions, although it is undercut by an over-the-top cascade of double octaves, doubled goofily by glockenspiel. The Concerto Challenge 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z “This time of year I enjoy the Bach chorales,” he said. Jared Hansen’s hands are on pianos all over Grand Island 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z For its May 19 season finale, the early music ensemble will celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Pasadena with a program of chorale concertos and cantatas. 15 ways to hear chamber music magic in L.A. 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z He also absorbed the liturgical chants and chorales at Catholic services he attended with his mother, along with gospel music from black churches. Seattle musician Evan Flory-Barnes brings his boundary-defying show to On the Boards 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z His farewell concert with the chorale, he said, was the crown jewel of his career - they performed “Requiem for the Living,” by Dan Forrest, alongside the Greenwood High School Eagle Singers. Former choir director now gives voice to history 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z The chorale offered him yet another opportunity to explore, musically, and he became choir director at First Greenwood ARP Church. Former choir director now gives voice to history 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z But the temperature was about 90 and the day was windless, and as they played the Bach chorale, they were racing against time. Cue the carrots! Strike up the squash! It’s a vegetable orchestra 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z But the temperature hovered around 90 and the day was windless, and as they played the Bach chorale, they were racing against time. Cue the Carrots! Strike up the Squash! 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z Information seekers discovered that the Missouri State University Chorale performed a new song, “Now We Belong,” which was written for the occasion. Dictionary.com reported that, after the performance, “chorale” had become its most searched term. Who Sang, Spoke or Stood By at Donald J. Trump’s Inauguration? 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z They are rooted in archaic chants, hymns, and chorales. Bach’s Holy Dread 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z His farewell concert with the chorale, he said, was the crown jewel of his career — they performed “Requiem for the Living,” by Dan Forrest, alongside the Greenwood High School Eagle Singers. Former choir director now gives voice to history 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z As their conductor gently raised both hands, they steadied their instruments and played the first notes of a Bach chorale. Cue the carrots! Strike up the squash! It’s a vegetable orchestra 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z I sing in a community chorale and a Methodist church choir. Letter of Recommendation: Choir 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z The chorale competed directly for interest with the group that Ronald Reagan called “America’s choir.” Who Sang, Spoke or Stood By at Donald J. Trump’s Inauguration? 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z Most curious was Martin's success with the Master Singers, who charted with a series of chorale songs on mundane topics such as the weather and the rules of the road. Three essential (and non-Beatles) productions by George Martin 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z “Dead,” the chorale answers at once, the chorus of “mm’hmms” and “Amens” swelling as Swanson preaches. Getting a bachelor’s degree in gospel music requires study — and soul 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z While teaching speech communication at the Air Force Academy from 1971-75, Dayton was the officer assigned to the cadet chorale. Singing brings harmony to career as veteran and priest 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z I sing in a community chorale and a Methodist church choir. Letter of Recommendation: Choir 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z “Castle” presents an intriguing mix of deep house with chorale singing thrown in for good measure, while “New Americana” is an uptempo clarion cry of the musical yearnings of the current generation. Halsey to play D.C.’s 9:30 Club 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z In place of the faithful, though, were dress Marines, a color guard, trumpeters and a chorale, and the leader of the free world, assembled in front of 11,000 people outside the White House. Pope Francis opens visit with message for both sides of U.S. political divide: Save our planet 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z She met the bass when she was a junior, at a rehearsal for a chorale at Queens College in Flushing. Lusty Memories of a New York Philharmonic Performance 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z He toured with the chorale while they “sang across America,” Dayton said with a nostalgic look in his eye. Singing brings harmony to career as veteran and priest 2015-11-14T05:00:00Z Singing in a community chorale-- rehearsing every Monday, performing in two concerts a year, building friendships, learning how to use one's... Letter of Recommendation: Choir 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z In the R&H version, the orphan Maria is first attracted to convent life because of the nuns’ religious chorales she hears. Can Even a Cranky Guy Fall for 'The Sound of Music'? 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z Georgetown Chorale Richard Giarusso conducts the chorale in a Mediterranean Christmas program featuring Ottorino Respighi’s “Laud to the Nativity,” with projections of art from the National Gallery’s collection. Entertainment events in Washington, D.C., Dec. 18-24, 2014. 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z The Stanley High School band and Bismarck Century High School chorale were selected from applications submitted by schools and civic groups. Stanley band, Bismarck Century chorale honored 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z The Church of the Epiphany is known in the chorale world for starting the Welcome Table Choir, which comprises homeless people. D.C. choir fest lifts every voice 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z The chorale provides more challenging music, a longer rehearsal cycle and the chance to work on the subtleties of each piece. Letter of Recommendation: Choir 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Culminating in a pile-up of the chorale A Mighty Fortress, it is also a bracing shake of the fist, radical still in its accessibility and fierce identity. Radical thinking: reviving American music's pioneering spirit 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Proceeds chorale and the church’s choral scholars program. Religious events from around the Washington area 2013-04-05T20:27:07Z Boasting speeded-up chase scenes, an “Ave Maria” chorale and an Expressionist bonus in Valjean’s vivid nightmares of his prison beatings, this remains the finest Hollywood version of Hugo’s novel. Top 10 Les Mizzes Better Than the New Les Miz 2012-12-30T05:05:23Z For the prissiest of your relatives, you can play the finale: a seriously heartfelt chorale of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.” The 12 CDs of Christmas 2012-12-25T11:10:00Z When the college’s chorale master initially proposed the piece, Mr. Peress said, “it made me wonder, ‘Is God telling me something?’ ” Character Study: The Maestro of Flushing 2012-12-08T07:21:23Z In many schools, the panelists said, a nonmusic major can perform in marching bands, chorales and ensembles. The Choice Blog: From Garage Bands to Marching Bands: 5 Tips For Musicians Applying to College 2012-10-10T10:00:30Z That's why even Bach and Handel ended their greatest works with a chorale - to cheer us on to a world we might get to by hearing a chorus that sounds like it's already got there. Why are the Beatles so popular 50 years on? 2012-06-15T17:53:56Z After all thy tonsures and chorales, thy credos and sackcloth, wilt thou admit the Evil One in the guise of a melody, in whose chromatic intervals lie dimpled cheek and sunny tress! Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Hiller’s compositions comprise almost every kind of church music, from the cantata to the simple chorale. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z He then handed me a little book of chorales, which he fetched from some out-of-the-way hole beneath the instrument. Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z He always proved himself a thoughtful artist, and strove to obtain a clear appreciation of each separate point—such, for instance, as the admissibility of the chorale, of the narrative, recitatives, etc. The History of Mendelssohn's Oratorio "Elijah" 2011-12-06T03:00:26.413Z He also published a chorale book in a.d. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z The band played a chorale, "Jesus, my Refuge," and the bells kept tolling all the while. Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z He and his wife, Cheryne, a chorale singer, were high school sweethearts in western Oklahoma. Even in Wealthy Town, Schools Feel Pinch 2011-03-08T19:28:34Z Now well known in local Irish circles, the chorale owes its growth in part to a serendipitous friendship between Mr. Allen and Frank Patterson, an internationally known Irish tenor he met around 1985. | Long Island: Devotees of Irish Music Make a Joyful Noise 2011-03-05T02:41:37Z They played several of Bach's chorales and then ceased. Over Here Impressions of America by a British officer 2011-01-30T03:00:16.597Z The reform of the chorale was carried out most vigorously in Württemberg, but it was in Bavaria that the old chorale in its primitive simplicity was most widely introduced. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z After they had finished the psalm the organ burst out with a tremendous great chord, enough to make you jump, and then played a chorale, and there were also trombones which took the melody. Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z The chorale, chamber orchestra and dancers from the Ballet Theatre of Maryland, who will perform Richard Rodgers's "Dream Ballet." Concerts 2010-02-19T05:00:00Z The chorale, chamber orchestra and dancers from the Ballet Theatre of Maryland, who will perform Richard Rodgers's memorable "Dream Ballet." 2010-02-12T05:00:00Z Every one looked round, and the laboriously practised chorale began to waver. The Undying Past He was to the chorale what Gerhardt was to the church song. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z Then all the congregation sang the chorale, and the choir kept silence. Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z His chorales and passion music also belong in a class by themselves. The Story of Our Hymns The last note of the birds' evening chorale had long since died away. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers A chorale was sung, and the usual penitential prayer followed. The Undying Past The old chorales were altered into modern forms. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z You cannot imagine how easy it is to sing when the trombones lead, and the effect is overwhelming with the organ, especially in these grand old chorales. Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z They are usually very light in character, with a lilt and movement that make them easily singable, but lacking in the rich harmony found in the standard hymns and chorales. The Story of Our Hymns Perhaps you know that little chorale that they've for the last seven years been singing in church? Regina or the Sins of the Fathers There used to be only an old quavering harmonium in the music-room, on which Ulrich had been wont to practise his chorales. The Undying Past He turned enthusiastically to the old chorale, which no one had ever understood and appreciated as he did. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z That chorale, "O Sacred Head now wounded," is taken from it, and it comes in twice; the second time with different harmonies and without accompaniment. Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z Mendelssohn introduces the air in his overture to “St. Paul,” and the entire chorale occurs in his “Hymn of Praise.” The Story of Our Hymns The cornett was given a place in the chorales of Bach and the operas of Gluck after it had become extinct in England. Springtime and Other Essays The different voices that join in a chorale sustain each other, and when the tone at last ceases, it seems to float away on the air and vanish by degrees. On the Heights A Novel There used to be a Fifth Act, with a grand trio and chorale, what has become of it? Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 98 June 7, 1890 They sing no chants in the service, but only chorales. Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z The circumstances that called forth Nicolai’s two great hymns and the classic chorales to which he wedded them are tragic in nature. The Story of Our Hymns Many of Bach’s greatest cantatas begin with an elaborate chorus followed by a couple of arias and recitatives, and end with a plain chorale. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" A chorale was performed by the band, in which all the troops present joined, while the heavens reddened as the vicar, with steady steps, descended the hill, and wended his way towards us. Waldfried A Novel Then follow each of the Seven Words, given out in simple chorale form, followed by its chorus, namely:— I. PATIENCE. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers In Germany in the 17th and 18th centuries, Zincken were used with trombones in the churches to accompany the chorales. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" The tunes employed, however, were often a distinct departure from the traditional Lutheran chorales, and were not always suited to congregational worship. The Story of Our Hymns Again, to return to the 16th century, what are the hymns of Palestrina but figured chorales? Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" Soon I seemed to hear the strains of a solemn chorale floating in the air; the sounds continued to grow more distinct; I realised the fact that they were men's voices chanting a church chorale. Weird Tales. Vol. I The fifth number is a solemn chorale in unison, leading to a soprano solo in the arioso style, “Caro cibus,” which is exquisitely beautiful. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers Only one theme, which occurs in the third movement, is of any account, and that is an imitation of an old German chorale. The So-called Human Race The magnificent chorale to which the hymn is sung is also Luther’s work. The Story of Our Hymns It seems to be less generally known that the chorale plays a considerable though not systematic part in Handel’s English works. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" Beginning with the Reformation, the form of hymn, called chorale, originated in the reformed Church of Germany and largely with Martin Luther. The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia The work closes with a repetition of the chorale, set to the last verse of the hymn, sung without accompaniment. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers But if Bach in the consummation of the chorale perfected Luther's work in the realm of music, he in his Passion music finds worthy expression of a nation's devotion. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 “Light of light, enlighten me,” a noble hymn of praise and adoration, has been happily wedded to a glorious chorale by Bach. The Story of Our Hymns He rolled off the chorale with redundant meaning, and with huge, flamboyant strokes went through the brilliant octave finale in B major. Melomaniacs The music was very fine, the chorales were sung so loud and strong that it really quite moved one. The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 3, 1854-1861 The chorale is not employed in its original form, but is elaborated with all the contrapuntal skill for which Bach was so famous. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers The recitatives and solo airs would still further convey this meaning, while a chorale or hymn in four parts, with elaborate instrumental accompaniment, served to express the feelings of the whole congregation. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 A large collection of plain chorales, including several original melodies. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" At its close they are all merged again in the grand announcement, "Be not afraid," delivered with impetuosity, and ending with the same subject in powerful chorale form. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers Its music is not a monotone, but a chorale. Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. These chorales should be sung very slow indeed, and will admit of much accompaniment. A Practical Discourse on Some Principles of Hymn-Singing The chorale was introduced by Luther; it was perfected by Bach. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 With the introduction of the Lutheran chorale and congregational singing it was found that the existing organs could not make themselves heard above the voices. The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments This chorus leads directly to the chorale, "Let all Men praise the Lord," sung first without accompaniment, and then in unison with orchestra. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers The chorale was the exact opposite of the motette of the Netherlands. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present Great, then, was my astonishment when the little group broke into the four-part harmony of a fine chorale. A Flat Iron for a Farthing or Some Passages in the Life of an only Son Variations, subtle, beautiful, a refined and fuller contrapuntal treatment, mingled with the chorale. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 They should be heard sung to the old chorales, massive, yet sweet, by the lusty voices of a German congregation. Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan The treatment of this chorale, by combining it with the instrumental movement in opposing rhythms, shows the powerful influence which the composer's close study of Bach had upon him. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers In the chorale all of the voices moved together. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present A resolution of the discord was needed; a soft chorale should follow the din and lead to a mellow adagio close. Gibbon He played the flute and the lute, and in church he introduced congregational singing, in which the people took an active part in worship by means of the chorales. Chopin and Other Musical Essays The ceremony began with the singing of psalms, a short sermon, and a grand German chorale, in which all present joined. Historical Tales, Vol 5 (of 15) The Romance of Reality, German The chorales are selected from those which were in common use in the Lutheran Church, and were familiar therefore to the congregations which sang the melody, the harmony being sustained by the chorus and instruments. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers It consisted of a narrative, reflections, chorales, and the words of the Lord Himself. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present They sang one of his saddest melodies, Resignation, a setting of a poem of Eichendorff's, and a chorale by his old friend Bruckner, who had died several years before him. Musicians of To-Day The overture leads into the first piece of song, the chorale that forms a vital part of the musical texture as the opera proceeds. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas It is folk-melody with its face washed and hair combed; it bears the same relation to English folk-melody as a chorale from the "Matthew" Passion bears to its original. Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians The whole work is written for double chorus, the two choruses singing the harmony of the chorales, accompanied by the instruments, while the congregation sing the tune in unison. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers In the early morning the congregation band played suitable chorales in good time and tune, and the solemn strains were well adapted to prepare hearts and feelings for the spiritual privileges of the day. With the Harmony to Labrador Notes of a Visit to the Moravian Mission Stations on the North-East Coast of Labrador Wolf was a Catholic; and his taste was not formed, like that of most German musicians, by books of chorales. Musicians of To-Day The first act opens in the Church of St. Katherine, at Nuremberg, with the singing of a chorale to organ accompaniment. The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers But they still bounded and beat against the door, and presently began to howl a vain chorale. Flames At its conclusion the evangelist resumes his narrative, followed by the chorale: "Break forth, O beauteous, heavenly Light," preluding the announcement of the angel, "Behold, I bring you Good Tidings." The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers He began with a few Bach chorales, then came A Mighty Fortress is Our God; followed by the A minor prelude and fugue, and the Wedge fugue. Promenades of an Impressionist In his own musical architecture one finds well-marked airs, numerous recitatives, Gregorian or Palestrinian choruses, chorales with developments and variations in the old style, and intervening symphonies of some importance. Musicians of To-Day Trumpet-calls, repeating the motive first heard in the prelude, arouse them from their sleep; and as they offer up their morning prayer the chorale is heard again. The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers The different voices that join in the chorale sustain each other; and when the tone at last ceases, it seems to float away on the air and vanish by degrees. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 He first applied to Marx to write the text; but the invitation was declined, on the ground that the chorales were unsuited to the period of the narrative. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers Later the chorale is sounded by the full band, with intermediate beats of rhythmic march. Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies And the simple phrase at the beginning soon assumes fuller proportions, the harmonies gain in richness, a glowing ardour fills the music, and a chorale blends with the dances in triumphant majesty. Musicians of To-Day It was preserved here for centuries and purified; all the best was collected in Toledo, and from the books in this Cathedral have gone forth the chorales of all the churches in Spain and America. The Shadow of the Cathedral He then asked her to play to him, and she went through several of his favourite hymns and chorales. Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901 The overture opens with a pianissimo prelude for organ in chorale form, followed by an orchestral fugue well worked up, but very quiet in character. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers In answer comes a new phrase of chorale. Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies Prince Albert's chorale, "In life's gay morn," was performed again. Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2 An old chorale of his was, as Spitta says, "floating in his soul, and he wanted to complete and perfect it." The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1 Their offerings and tributes were mostly flowers, poems and music—wonderfully sweet chorales and gay réveils and inspiriting marches. Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood Then Eli intones benedictions in chorale style, and the chorus responds with "Amens" in full harmony at the end of each, making a very impressive effect. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers A completing touch lies in the answering phrase of the chorale, where the answer of original motto is transformed into a masterful ring of cheer and confidence. Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies During the service the thirty-ninth Psalm, Luther's Hymn, and two chorales were sung. Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2 From the old custom termed Kindeiwiegen, which remained in the German Protestant Church centuries after the Reformation, Luther borrowed the refrain, "Susaninne" for one of his Christmas chorales. A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music Soon I seemed to hear the strains of a solemn chorale floating in the air; the sounds continued to grow more distinct; I realized the fact that they were men's voices chanting a church chorale. Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 1 As the disciples ask, "Lord, is it I?" another chorale is sung, "'Tis I! my Sins betray me." The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers Throughout the movement is this alternation of liturgic chorale with tender melody. Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies For the first time since his illness he asked for music, "a fine chorale." Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2 The languid, earth-weary voice of the opening and the churchly refrain of the chorale, is not this fantastic contrast! Chopin : the Man and His Music A few minutes before midnight he opened the piano, and played with solemnity, and as if it had been a chorale, a song of Schumann's, entitled "To the Drinking-cup of a Departed Friend." Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 1 No Christmas hymn, indeed no true chorale, is introduced in it.... The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers Against descending harmonies return the hollow, sombre phrases of the beginning, with the full cadence of chorale in the brass; and beyond, the whole prelude has a full, extended verse. Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies Fine chorales were sung below the window by some of the singers in the Coburg theatre. Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2 The chorale of the trio is admirably devised and carried out. Chopin : the Man and His Music The chorale "Crux fidelis," which is gradually developed, illustrates the idea of the final victory of Christianity in its effectual love to God and man. Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 2 from Rome to the End The first and second parts close with chorales, but in the third the opening chorus is repeated at the close. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers With them the popular type of tune was the chorale; and here they refused to give way to popular clamour. A History of the Moravian Church The congregation sit at ease while the parson does the praying for them, and while they are droning the long-drawn-out chorales, he retires into a little wooden box just big enough to hold him. Elizabeth and Her German Garden As the chorale dies away, the narrative is resumed, leading up to another chorale, "For us to earth he cometh poor," combined with an orchestral symphony and bass recitative. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers The evangelist gives them the sign, followed by the chorale which closed the first part, in another form, "Within yon Gloomy Manger lies." The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers At the close of the work the same chorale appears, but it has another meaning. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers And yet, despite this official attitude, certain standard chorales fell into disuse, and were replaced by flimsier English airs. A History of the Moravian Church Up in our gallery pew we tried to decipher our chorales by the light of the spluttering tallow candles stuck in holes in the woodwork, the flames wildly blown about by the draughts. Elizabeth and Her German Garden It portrays the sufferings of Christ, and was performed at church festivals, the congregation taking part in the singing of the chorales, which were mostly familiar religious folk-songs. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers |
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