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| | ORATORIO - LoveToKnow Article on ORATORIO |
 | | 174) in oratorio clearly show the limited rise from the, musical standards of opera, that was then possible where music was emancipated from the stage. | | | The narrative and the, parts of single speakers were sung in the Gregorian tones appointed in the liturgy. | | | Thus the settings of the P~ssion by Victoria and Soriano represent, in a very simple form, a perfect solution of the art-problem of oratorio, as that problem presented itself to an age in which dramatic music, or even epic music, would have been a contradiction in terms. |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/O/OR/ORATORIO.htm
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| | Jerusalem Oratorio Choir |
| | The special Jerusalem Oratorio choir project was established in 1987 by the Jerusalem Fund and the Culture Department of the Jerusalem Municipality, on the initiative of Mr. | | | The Jerusalem Oratorio Choir has to date recorded three CDs, and recorded concerts have been aired on Israel television and radio. | | | The Jerusalem Oratorio Choir has performed many well-known choral works from the classical repertoire with various orchestras, including the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the Raanana Symphonette Orchestra, the Yad Harif Chamber Orchestra, and the New Chamber Ensemble led by Robert Canti. |
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http://jerusalem_oratorio.tripod.com/aboutjo.html
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| | The Oratorio |
| | It is also claimed that he was the first to introduce the cantata as a form of church music, and the accompaniment of violins in motet performances. | | | Federici wrote two oratorios, Santa Cristina," and "Santa Caterina de Sienna" in both of which " interstitial " accompaniment is used for the first time; that is, the violins, instead of accompanying the voice, repeat portions of the melody in short symphonies. | | | Burney notes that in the close of this work degrees of diminution of sound, such as " piano," '` più piano," and "pianissimo," are used for the first time. |
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http://www.oldandsold.com/articles31n/oratorio-1.shtml
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| | oratorio -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | The large-scale musical composition for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra using a sacred or semisacred text is known as an oratorio. | | | Among the large forms of vocal music, opera and oratorio are the most significant. | | | While an opera is performed in a theatre, an oratorio is a concert piece. |
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http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-9276203?tocId=9276203&query=recitative
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| | Oratorio Society of New York - Society History |
| | The Oratorio Society has always viewed bringing new music to New York audiences as part of its mission. | | | The Oratorio Society presented its first concert on December 3, 1873. | | | At its May 1998 125th anniversary concert the Society was honored by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani as "one of the most treasured institutions of our city's musical life. |
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http://www.oratoriosocietyofny.org/history.html
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| | Oratorio Chorus |
| | Winona Oratorio Chorus is an auditioned ensemble made up of community singers, WSU faculty and staff singers, and college singers. | | | It is made up of people of all ages and all walks of life who share one common dream: to make great choral music come alive in Winona. |
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http://course1.winona.edu/hmechell/WSU_Choral_Program/Oratorio_Chorus/oratorio_chorus.html
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| | Oratorio Society 117 years old -- From Progress '98 January 22, 1998 |
| | That was the birth of the Handel Oratorio Society which has provided a mystical experience for other listeners for 117 years. | | | Professor Olsson was the son of a pious mother who thought it was sinful for him to love and play the violin as much as he did, but how could such sacred music be sinful? | | | The singers who come together as the Handel Oratorio Society achieve a remarkable unity. |
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http://www.qconline.com/progress98/arts/prhandel.html
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| | Emmanuel Music/Christmas Oratorio Program Notes |
| | Bach's Christmas Oratorio has always seemed to me the ur-Christmas music, simply the profoundest thoughts on the matter ever uttered. | | | Bach gives a glow to the moment of his naming and the echoing of that name around the world that provides a whole new dimension to the Christmas story. | | | It is also includes his most extensive reuse of secular materials in sacred music. |
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http://www.emmanuelmusic.org/pages/prognotes/chris_ora_notes02.htm
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| | His "Hymn of Praise" (184o), a large choral work that is occasionally sung, well represents Mendelssohn's skill in combining vocal and orchestral effect. | | | In 1739 came "Saul" and "Israel in Egypt," the former best-known today for its famous "Dead March," the latter for the music descriptive of the plagues. | | | Riemann calls it a symphony-cantata, Parry says it "combines the qualities of a symphony and of an oratorio." |
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http://www.oldandsold.com/articles31n/music-history-25.shtml
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| | Westfield, NJ * Oratorio Singers * Westfield, New Jersey |
| | On December, 21, 2002, the Oratorio Singers presented a special performance with the New Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Leon Hyman at the Morristown Community Theater in Morristown, NJ. | | | In 1989 the Oratorio Singers, then directed by the Rev. Philip R. Dietterich, were part of a 600 voice chorus for a performance of the Verdi Requiem on the same stage. | | | The huge success of this concert was to give rise ten years later to the formation of Oratorio Singers. |
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http://westfieldnj.com/oratorio
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| | Oratorio |
| | An oratorio is a composition for orchestra, soloists and choir. | | | Most oratorios have a biblical themes, but a number of composers, notably George Frideric Handel, wrote a number of works based on themes from Greek and Roman mythology. | | | These hybrid works (part opera, part oratorio) are customarily referred to as secular oratorios. |
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http://www.theezine.net/o/oratorio.html
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| | Chimes Home Page |
| | Marking the end of the 16-year career of Music Director Howard Slenk, the Calvin College Oratorio Society performed the opera Elijah with a broad array of costumes, dancing and music on April 3 to 5. | | | Elijah is Slenk's final performance with the Oratorio Society. | | | A guest director will be brought in for the fall and spring performances with Ivory assuming responsibility for the musical coordination of the productions. |
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http://www-stu.calvin.edu/chimes/970418/n7041897.htm
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| | High School Chorale |
| | They will be joining with the oratorio society and its acclaimed professional orchestra to perform the Vaughn Williams piece along with baritone soloist David Arnold. | | | The May 5 concert will be held at John Jay High School in Cross River, N.Y. Though the Westchester Oratorio Society rehearses in South Salem, this will be their debut appearance in Lewisboro. | | | A protégé of Robert Shaw and a favorite of Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, he has performed extensively in the United States and Europe. |
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http://csis.pace.edu/wos/highschoolchorale.html
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| | Amazon.com: Music: Christmas Oratorio |
| | The only real flaw here is the mislabeling of discs 2 and 3: CD 2 contains Parts 3 and 4 of the oratorio (not 5 and 6), and CD 3 contains Parts 5 and 6 (not 2 and 3). | | | Christmas Oratorio, BWV248: Part I - Recitativo (A): Nun wird mein liebster Brautigam | | | In short, this is the new top choice among modern-instrument recordings of the Christmas Oratorio. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004WFG6?v=glance
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| | GEBEL Christmas Oratorio CPO 999 993-2 [JV]: Classical CD Reviews- Jan 2004 MusicWeb(UK) |
| | The same instrumentation - only with the viola, instead of the violins, playing 'con sordini' - is used in the recitativo accompagnato which describes the appearance of the angels to the shepherds, creating a pastoral atmosphere. | | | Having said that I think these two oratorios contain some very good music. | | | GEBEL Christmas Oratorio CPO 999 993-2 [JV]: Classical CD Reviews- Jan 2004 MusicWeb(UK) |
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http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2004/Jan04/Gebel.htm
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| | What is an Oratorio? |
| | The sacred oratorio is a form of religious music with chorus, solo voices, orchestra and/or organ, independent of, or at least separable form the liturgy, and on a larger scale than the cantata. | | | Bach's Christmas Oratorio consisted of six parts in cantata form and had a total of 64 musical numbers. | | | The Oratorio had been established as a term for a musical genre in Italy around 1660. |
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http://www.ptloma.edu/music/MUH/genres/oratorio/oratorio.htm
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Music: Bach: Christmas Oratorio |
| | This might very well be the ultimate recording of the Christmas Oratorio. | | | Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Five - For The 1st Sunday In The New Year: Coro - Recitativo | | | Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Five - For The 1st Sunday In The New Year: Terzetto |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000057D5
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| | Program Notes - Bach's Christmas Oratorio |
| | All would have been aware that each cantata was a part of a larger work (the more so because Bach numbered the individual musical sections continuously as if dividing a single piece). | | | Chances are, you would be standing – there are no deluxe seats in the stable of the Nativity. | | | We take you on that same journey in one joyous concert program. |
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http://www.apollosfire.org/program_notes/prog_note_Bach_oratorio.htm
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| | The spring concert has choral music of splendor and charm, of brightness and hopefulness brought by spring. | | | Most of the Oratorio Society concerts have been broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio. | | | It is run by it's members, who contribute time and talent not only in singing, but in operation, publicity, development, and stage management. |
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http://www.hamline.edu/cla/academics/fineart/oratorio.html
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| | Musical Forms - Oratorio |
| | Lasting some 30-60 minutes, they were performed in two sections, separated by a sermon; their music resembles that of contemporary operas and chamber cantatas. | | | Its success in a concert version prompted Handel to compose two more in 1733, and his other English oratorios followed in 1738-52. | | | The music of Haydn's late oratorios, The Creation and The Seasons, reflects his experience of Handelian oratorio in London. |
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http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/g_oratorio.html
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| | Cumberland Oratorio Singers (C.O.S.), Fayetteville NC |
| | Cumberland Oratorio Singers (C.O.S.), Fayetteville NC We enrich the life of the community through classical choral music | | | Special thanks to Methodist College for providing rehearsal and concert performance facilities. | | | If you love to sing great music, we invite you to join us |
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http://www.methodist.edu/cos/cos.htm
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| | It is a triumphant vindication of a subtle musical approach to an oratorio that admittedly is not an obvious candidate for Handel’s most subtle composition. | | | While it is unlikely that Handel used solo voices at all in either the original Funeral anthem or its oratorio offspring, Parrott’s use of them here does not rankle. | | | Parrott’s phrasing and shaping of the music reveals his keen awareness of rhetorical and refreshing elements in repertoire that can often descend into bombast. |
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http://www.gfhandel.org/reviews/hwv054parrott.htm
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Oratorio |
| | While composed to secular texts, they breathe the most tender piety and joy through an inexhaustible wealth of lyric and lofty music. | | | While in the sixteenth century liturgical polyphonic music reached its highest development, secular music boasted only one ensemble or choral form, the madrigal. | | | As at present understood, an Oratorio is a musical composition for solo voices, chorus, orchestra, and organ, to a religious text generally taken from Holy Scripture. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11270a.htm
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| | Santa Barbara Master Chorale |
| | His influence is reflected in the oratorios of Heinrich Schütz and Handel. | | | The Santa Barbara Master Chorale seeks to present each oratorio as the composer intended, under the baton of Phillip McLendon, Musical Director and Conductor of SBMC’s concerts. | | | Link to the Classical Midi Archives (you must have sound card, speakers & midi player) |
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http://www.sbmasterchorale.org/tradition.html
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| | Oratorio Society of Queens - About Us |
| | The Oratorio Society of Queens continues in its cultural mission - sharing a love of classical choral music with its friends and neighbors throughout Queens. | | | A joy to work with, David is an all-around splendid musician - conductor, concert pianist, organist, music director, former opera coach (at Queens College), and teacher. | | | OR-A-TO-RI-O: A musical composition for voices and instruments, narrating a usually sacred story without dramatic action or costumes. |
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http://www.queensoratorio.org/aboutus.htm
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Samson (oratorio) |
| | Samson is usually performed as an oratorio in concert form, but on occasions has also been staged as an opera. | | | Samson retained its popularity throughout Handel's lifetime and has never fallen entirely out of favor since. | | | Samson is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel. |
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http://pedia.nodeworks.com/S/SA/SAM/Samson_(oratorio)
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| | SendMeMovies.com - Bach, J.S.: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 - SACD |
| | Here is a multichannel, super audio recording of JS Bach's Christmas Oratorio, which is actually a collection of six cantatas arranged around various aspects of the German Lutheran Bible's Christmas gospel narratives. | | | The music is among the most joyous that the old master composer ever gave us, and the sequences are varied enough that you don't get fatigued listening, even if you sit through the entire series of six cantatas. | | | Lasset uns nun gehen gen Bethlehem 0:46 2002 27 Johann Sebastian Bach Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248, III. |
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http://www.sendmemovies.com/ps-36355-77-bach-js-christmas-oratorio-bwv-248-sacd.aspx
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| | Oratorio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | An oratorio is a large musical composition for orchestra, vocal soloists and chorus. | | | The peak period for composition of oratorios was the 17th and 18th centuries. | | | Most oratorios from the common practice period to the present day have biblical themes, but a number of composers, notably George Frideric Handel, wrote secular oratorios based on themes from Greek and Roman mythology. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oratorio
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| | Oratorio Remembers Children of the Holocaust |
| | Their voices were forever silenced, but their words are living on. | | | It premiered in Toronto, Canada, and will eventually tour overseas. | | | Many saw the premiere performance of the Oratorio as an inspiring symbol of this partnership. |
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http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/cwn/020604holocaustoratorio.asp
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| | New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock GA-GH |
| | But, even if Urmas had sung alone this album I would still have considered it (as well as the majority of you) a Rock Opera anyway since there is a lot of conceptual albums with one singer at the microphone that are hailed as Rock Operas. | | | Another re-release of once-lost music from the dusty archives of the Russian Boheme label. | | | So, in my view, Garsnek's Animal Farm is nothing short of a (very original) kind of Rock Opera (in the album's booklet this work is labeled as "Rock Oratorio"). |
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| | Oratorio Music CDs at Songsearch.com |
| | Oratorio Music CDs, DVD Movies, Music Videos, Songs, and Song Titles | | | We have over a million items listed from all over the globe. |
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http://www.songsearch.com/title/o/oratorio.html
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| | Bach's Christmas Oratorio (PHC) |
| | And his wife was right: the Oratorio kept singers and orchestras busy for many years to come. | | | And--- (MUSIC STARTS, BADLY) (HE RAPS ON MUSIC STAND) No, no, no. Does everyone have the right Oratorio? | | | Jack--- this Oratorio is like a jobs program for musicians. |
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http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/19961224/96_1224BACH.htm
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| | ROSSINGS.ORG |
| | The Rochester Oratorio Society is an independent organization dedicated to bringing the best of choral music to Rochester, NY audiences and providing opportunities for singers in the community to perform these masterworks. | | | The Society's nearly 200 members take pride in their |
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| | GameStats: Virtual On: Oratorio Tangram (Import Version) Articles |
| | That long name translates to a whole lot of music that VOOT fans will love. | | | Dreamcast: Soundtrack Review: Virtual On Oratorio Tangram Dreamcast Official Sound Track - DC | | | GameStats: Virtual On: Oratorio Tangram (Import Version) Articles |
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http://www.gamestats.com/objects/011/011023/articles.html
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| | Bach Choir of Bethlehem |
| | The use of a chorale ("Nun lieget alles unter dir," movt. | | | One of three oratorios by Bach, the Ascension Oratorio was first performed on Ascension Day in 1735 (May 19) in Leipzig. | | | Bach wrote several cantatas for the Feast of the Ascension (BWV 37, 43, and 128), though none matches the musical scope of the Ascension Oratorio (BWV 11, sometimes referred to as BWV 249a). |
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http://www.bach.org/bach101/cantatas/cantata11.html
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| | Perth Oratorio Choir |
| | Welcome to the homepage of the Perth Oratorio Choir. | | | all content © copyright 2000 perth oratorio choir. |
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| | Abstract |
| | The musical images of Agostino di Duccio, from the Tempio Malatestiano and the Oratorio di S. Bernardino | | | The work of the Florentine sculptor Agostino di Duccio (1418-1481) can be regarded as very original contribution to iconographic themes and to ideas about the arts in the early Renaissance. |
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http://www.cilea.it/music/pgabstr/dellapor.htm
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| | Maulbronn Monastery Edition - G.F.Haendel: Oratory Samson (in english) - 2 CDs |
| | G.F.Haendel, Oratory SAMSON (2CDs,DDD), A Concertrecording in english with S.Pratschke, M.Chance, M.LeBrocq, R.Nolte, D.Thomas, Maulbronner Kammerchor, Baroqueorchestra, Conductor Juergen Budday, K&K Verlagsanstalt Edition Monastery Maulbronn George Frideric Handel SAMSON An oratorio in three movements A concert recording from the convent church in Maulbronn (1999) in english and performed in a historical setting. | | | ISBN 3-930643-62-6, US$ 24,00 An oratorio in three movements in english, performed in a historical setting. |
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http://www.kuk-verlagsanstalt.com/English/Maulbronn/SetSamson.html
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| | Classical Net - J.S. Bach - Cantata Listener's Guide - BWV 11 |
| | Still, I can't say that being a parody has ever put me off and it is an excellent piece which will especially appeal if you appreciate Bach's use of the trumpet! | | | Classical Net - J.S. Bach - Cantata Listener's Guide - BWV 11 | | | The Ascension Oratorio, along with the Easter Oratorio, is one of those works which, for reasons that completely baffle me, seems to be little known and rarely recorded. |
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http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/works/bachjs/cantatas/011.html
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| | Oratorio Society of Queens - Maestro David Close |
| | He fosters the development of music making by amateurs who otherwise pursue their own callings in life but have a love of music, and more particularly a love of singing. | | | With his gift for anecdote and insightful commentary, David's comments from the podium are among the hallmarks of Oratorio Society concerts. | | | Maestro Close studied conducting with Laszlo Halasz (founder and first Music Director of the NYC Opera) and was the assistant conductor for The Concert Choir and Orchestra of Long Island that produced many operas and choral works in the metropolitan and Long Island areas. |
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http://www.queensoratorio.org/maestro.htm
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| | A section of music encyclopedia |
| | The diminutive arietta indicates a little aria, while arioso refers to a freer form of aria-like vocal writing. | | | The so-called da capo aria of later baroque opera, oratorio and other vocal compositions, is an aria in which the first section is repeated, usually with additional and varied ornamentation, after the first two sections. |
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http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/traditional-music/ency/a.htm
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| | Leroy Robertson's Oratorio from the Book of Mormon |
| | However, a lack of performances, new recordings, and the original recording going out of print have resulted in the work descending into obscurity. | | | The oratorio begins 5 years before Christ is born with Samuel the Lamanite prophesying to the wicked Nephites. | | | He was one of the first composers to get a PhD (most composers did not seek the degree in his day). |
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http://james.magnusviri.com/music/robertson.html
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| | oratorio |
| | Originally it was acted out with scenery and costumes, but gradually it became more commonly performed as a concert. | | | The form reached perfection in such works as Johann Sebastian Bach’s Christmas Oratorio (performed 1734–35), and George Handel’s Messiah (1742). | | | Its origins lie in the Laude spirituali performed by St Philip Neri’s Oratory in Rome in the 16th century, followed by the first definitive oratorio in the 17th century by Cavalieri. |
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http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0011467.html
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| | Handel's oratorio a confrontation between hope and despair |
| | Groag was the dramatic spark plug behind COT's staging of Handel's "Agrippina'' in 2003, a conception that had all the vulgar but fatally irresistible allure of "The Sopranos.'' | | | So Groag faced the difficulty of staging a work with glorious music but virtually no dramatic movement. | | | He was a man of the theater in his genes, but when necessary he channeled that instinct for dramatic action into oratorios like "Messiah'' that bristle with musical evocations of furiously warring nations and sorrowing penitents. |
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http://www.suntimes.com/output/delacoma/sho-sunday-cot27.html
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| | Oratorio : Presentation Training |
| | And the best speakers also employ other techniques that invite an audience to listen — and act in a way that benefits the speaker. | | | Whether it’s an audience of 5 or 500 — a marketing presentation or a keynote speech - Oratorio’s program of "building blocks" shows professionals how to: | | | Content development is also a key element of Oratorio’s training. |
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http://www.oratorio.com/presentation.htm
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| | A History of the Oratorio, Volume 4: The Oratorio in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries |
| | He then addresses aesthetic theory and criticism, treats libretto and music in general, and offers detailed analyses of the librettos and music of specific oratorios (thirty-one in all) that are of special importance to the history of the genre. | | | Continuing the approach of previous volumes, Smither explores the oratorio in each language and geographical area by first examining the cultural and social contexts of oratorio. | | | As a synthesis of specialized literature as well as an investigation of primary sources, this work will serve as both a springboard for further research and an essential reference for choral conductors, soloists, choral singers, and others interested in the history of the oratorio. |
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http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/english/19c/books/book-0-8078-2511-5.html
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| | The Observer Sport Motivator eclipsed by Oratorio |
| | In Fallon, he has found the man to force him higher up the ladder. | | | Altieri was a handy spare ride for Richard Hughes, who took over after Frankie Dettori suffered a broken left collarbone in a fall from Celtic Mill in the first race. | | | Oratorio looks as though he is one of those individuals who does only just enough to get by in life. |
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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/sport/story/0,6903,1520380,00.html
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| | Classical Net - J.S. Bach - Cantata Listener's Guide - BWV 248/III |
| | Mary's aria, which follows, is thought to be the only original aria in the Christmas Oratorio; it is a gentle and beautiful reflection on the miracle that has just taken place accompanied by solo violin. | | | The evangelist tells us that they have seen the child and that they spread the news of His arrival. | | | Christmas Oratorio Part III, Cantata BWV 248/III, BC D 7 |
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http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/works/bachjs/cantatas/248-III.html
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| | Oratorio |
| | Whether you are a member of our audience, a Friend of the Wayne Oratorio Society, or a member of the choir, we look forward to glorifying God together in music, recreating the timeless choral masterpieces of Horatio Parker, G. Handel, and J. Bach. | | | The ministry of the Wayne Oratorio Society is made possible through offerings and through The Friends of the Wayne Oratorio Society, individual patrons who ascribe to the choir’s purpose and share in their vision of ministry through music. | | | The choir is made up of singers from the church and community who rehearse Tuesday evenings from September to May. 273 singers sang last season. |
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http://www.waynepres.org/oratorio.htm
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