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Sunday, November 13, 2011

Daily Kos: Music

Daily Kos: Music:

Music

Consider this an addendum to what I posted this morning. Today was a full day. We spent three hours at a gathering of Old Members of Univ - University College Oxford, where my beloved spouse got an M. Litt while on a Marshall. From there we went to a concert at the Kennedy Center.

It was the initial concert of what will be Norman Scribner's final year of directing the Choral Arts Society, a large orchestral chorus here in DC. This concert was dedicated to 4 works by 20th Century Masters.

The four works were

Stravinsky - Symphony of Psalms
Lauridsen - Lux Aeterna
Bernstein - Chichester Psalms
Prokofiev - the Cantata from Alexander Nevsky (minus the Battle on the Ice, which is purely orchestral).

All four are works I know.

It has been a