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| | ORATORIO - LoveToKnow Article on ORATORIO |
 | | Handel discovered and matured every possibility of oratorio as an art-form, except such as may now be brought to light by those composers with whom the influence of Wagner is not too overwhelming for them to consider how far his principles are applicable to an art unconnected with the stage. | | | Though Berliozs essay, in oratorio is not quite so irresponsible a vocalsymphonic-dramatic medley as his Romeo et Julietle and Damnation,de Faust, it unmistakably marks a transition towards the complete secularizing of the Bible for musical purposes. | | | Shortly before Bach, Passion oratorios, not always so entitled, were represented by several remarkable and mature works of art, most notably by R. Keiser (1673-1739). |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/O/OR/ORATORIO.htm
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| | Oratorio |
| | Mendelssohn had started the composition of another oratorio, "Christus," on the lines of the "Passion" music of Bach, but died before the work was completed. | | | He uses a fugal style quite freely in his choruses, but a strict fugue, in the style of Handel, is rare, as the composer's feeling for emotional effects demands a freer style ; the accompaniments are elaborate, partaking of the dramatic element and drawing upon the fullest re-sources of the orchestra. | | | This latter point is strikingly present in the texts of Handel's oratorios ; the symbolic meaning of the narrative is clearly indicated and made the central thought of the work, producing a remarkable effect of Unity. |
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http://www.oldandsold.com/articles31n/music-history-25.shtml
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| | The Oratorio |
| | THE oratorio in its modern form is a musical setting of a sacred story or text in a style more or less dramatic. | | | Caldara wrote a large number of oratorios, mostly adapted to the poetry of Zeno and Metastasio, which are said to have been delightful productions. | | | After his death, however, in 1595, his work was continued by Emilio del Cavaliere, a Roman composer, who produced the first real oratorio which had as yet appeared. |
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http://www.oldandsold.com/articles31n/oratorio-1.shtml
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| | Musical Forms - Oratorio |
| | From the mid-17th century composers began including music with non-biblical texts; this resulted in the 'oratorio Passion', a genre that culminated in the Passions of Bach. | | | The music of Haydn's late oratorios, The Creation and The Seasons, reflects his experience of Handelian oratorio in London. | | | After 1800 fewer major composers devoted their main energies to oratorio, but the genre continued to occupy a central place, especially in England and Germany, with the emphasis on massive performances at music festivals. |
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http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/g_oratorio.html
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Oratorio |
| | A third oratorio, "Ritorno di Tobia", on a Biblical text, has not the same importance, nor does Mozart (1756-91), in his only oratorio, "Davidde penitente", attain the artistic level of most of his productions, Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) wrote one oratorio, "The Mount of Olives", which shows him at his best. | | | Through Händel the oratorio attained a position in musical art more important than at any previous period in its history and never surpassed since. | | | France, which, since the days of Charpentier, had practically neglected the oratorio, probably on account of the opera appealing more strongly to French taste and temperament, and because of the lack of amateur singers has, within the last thirty years, furnished a number of remarkable works. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11270a.htm
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| | Oratorio Society of Queens - About Us |
| | The Oratorio Society of Queens is a charter Member of the Queens Council on the Arts and Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts and a member of Chorus America. | | | About Us The Oratorio Society of Queens is the oldest performing arts institution in the borough. | | | Its inception in the Spring of 1927 preceded completion of the subway (the #7 line) in 1931 and the Triboro Bridge in 1940. |
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http://www.queensoratorio.org/aboutus.htm
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| | The Oratorio |
| | English composers were writing oratorios for the next 150 years. | | | Why, then - if an oratorio is generally lamer than an opera, would it have caught on at all? | | | Handel was later commissioned to write the "Messiah". |
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http://www.incompetech.com/music/oratorio.html
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| | Oratorio Remembers Children of the Holocaust |
| | The Oratorio’s text is poems written by children, prisoners of the Nazi ghetto of Terezin, near Prague. | | | Many saw the premiere performance of the Oratorio as an inspiring symbol of this partnership. | | | After three-and-a-half years, the Oratorio emerged as a piece for 200 performers. |
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http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/cwn/020604holocaustoratorio.asp
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| | Oratorio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Oratorio closely mirrored opera in all ages in musical style and form, except that choruses were more prominent in oratorio than in opera. | | | Frequently the instruments for oratorio choruses include timpani and trumpets. | | | An oratorio is a large musical composition for orchestra, vocal soloists and chorus. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oratorio
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| | oratorio -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | He is chiefly notable for his oratorios (choral works based on sacred texts) and secular cantatas (works for one or two voices and instruments). | | | Both are extended works in which a narrative is set to music. | | | The leading Neapolitan opera composers also helped to establish the Baroque successor to the madrigal—the cantata—which originated as a secular form for solo voice with instrumental accompaniment. |
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http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-9276203?tocId=9276203&query=recitative
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| | Oratorio Society 117 years old -- From Progress '98 January 22, 1998 |
| | Soon, the Handel Oratorio Society was doing other sacred works as well, and for years the custom has been to present a second work in the spring. | | | ROCK ISLAND -- Olaf Olsson, an Augustana College professor, went to London in 1880 and heard Handel's ``Messiah.'' It was a mystical experience for him, and he wanted to bring that great music back to his small college in Rock Island. | | | This was when the founder of Bethany College, another Lutheran school in Kansas, heard the music and started the Bethany ``Messiah'' tradition. |
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http://www.qconline.com/progress98/arts/prhandel.html
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| | Program Notes - Bach's Christmas Oratorio |
| | The Christmas Oratorio departs from that pattern, combining prose and reflective poetry in a text that is dominated by strict quotations from the Bible. | | | But, while it is true that it does not conform to the genre as it was generally known in that period, all the evidence – most powerfully in the music itself – suggests that Bach conceived the work as a complete and integrated whole. | | | The texts of the originals are both by Picander (Christian Friedrich Henrici), and so skillfully is the poetry rewritten and transformed to fit the themes of the new work that it is often speculated that he is the anonymous librettist for the Christmas Oratorio as well. |
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http://www.apollosfire.org/program_notes/prog_note_Bach_oratorio.htm
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| | Oratorio Society of Queens - Maestro David Close |
| | Maestro Close is celebrating his 35-year anniversary with the Oratorio Society of Queens as a testament to his enduring devotion to the arts in Queens and his commitment to making the Oratorio Society a vibrant part of Queens’ cultural infrastructure and community life. | | | 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. | | | Maestro Close has received personal recognition from the New York City Council for bringing fine music to Queens. |
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http://www.queensoratorio.org/maestro.htm
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| | Handel's oratorio a confrontation between hope and despair |
| | 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. | | | Handel's oratorio a confrontation between hope and despair | | | So Groag faced the difficulty of staging a work with glorious music but virtually no dramatic movement. |
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http://www.suntimes.com/output/delacoma/sho-sunday-cot27.html
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| | Bach Choir of Bethlehem |
| | a) No section of the Christmas Oratorio is actually intended to be performed on Christmas Day. | | | 2) The Christmas Oratorio is not entirely an appropriate name because: | | | b) Bach never called this work the Christmas Oratorio. |
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http://www.bach.org/bach101/other_vocal/xmas_oratorio_quiz.html
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| | Students join the Society in rehearsal, meet the music directors and singers, and attend a performance of the music they've rehearsed. | | | The Oratorio Society began on a wintry evening in 1980, when seventy singers gathered to rehearse and perform Haydn's Nelson Mass. | | | The Society also performs around the state, as such places as the Myles Reif Performing Arts Center in Grand Rapids, the Sheldon Theatre in Red Wing, and the Benedicta Arts Center in St. Joseph. |
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http://www.hamline.edu/cla/academics/fineart/oratorio.html
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| | George Frideric Handel - HWV 46-71 |
| | oratorio en 3 actes pour solistes (1732): (S: Esther, femme israélite, homme israélite; A: Ahasverus, Mordecai; T: Harbonah, Officier; B: Haman) et chur (SSAATBB) avec 2 flûtes, 2 hautbois, 2 bassons, 2 cors, 2 trompettes, timbales, 5 violons, alto, violoncelle, contrebasse, théorbe, harpe, 2 clavecins et orgue | | | oratorio sur la Passion pour solistes (S: Maria, 3 femmes, Tochter Zion, Âme; A: Jakobus, Johannes, Judas, Âme; T: Evangéliste, Petrus, Âme; B: Caiphas, Jesus, Pilatus, Kriegsknecht, Âme) et chur (SATB) avec 2 hautbois, 2 bassons, 2 violons, alto et basse continue | | | oratorio en 3 actes pour solistes (S: Dalila, Femme israélite, Femme philistine, Vierge; A: Micah; T: Samson, Philistin, Homme israélite, Messager; B: Manoa, Harapha) et chur (SSATTB) avec 2 flûtes traversières, 2 hautbois, 2 bassons, 2 cors, 2 trompettes, 2 trombones, timbales, 3 violons, alto, violoncelle, orgue et basse continue |
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http://infopuq.uquebec.ca/%7Euss1010/catal/handel/hangfcatv2.html
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| | Bach's Christmas Oratorio (PHC) |
| | Jack--- this Oratorio is like a jobs program for musicians. | | | GK: The next day, Bach began to rehearse his Christmas Oratorio. | | | JM:I only regret that it will have its Premiere in Leipzig. |
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http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/19961224/96_1224BACH.htm
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| | Lesson 23 |
| | George Frideric Handel is known for his Italian operas and his English oratorios as well as much instrumental music. | | | Handel's oratorio Messiah remains one of the best-loved and most performed works today. | | | One of greatest masters of the oratorio was George Frideric Handel, a German composer who worked most of his life in England. |
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http://www.wwnorton.com/enjoy/lessons/lesson23.htm
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| | Christmas Oratorio |
| | Christmas Oratorio is the story of three generations of men, all deeply affected by the tragic death of a wonderful woman. | | | Solveig's death was certainly tragic, but her legacy is ultimately as glorious as the dream her grandson finally fulfills. | | | She wants her tiny church choir to one day perform Bach's Christmas Oratorio. |
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http://www.cinequest.org/98/catalog/christmas.html
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| | GEBEL Christmas Oratorio CPO 999 993-2 [JV]: Classical CD Reviews- Jan 2004 MusicWeb(UK) |
| | There are more places where Gebel uses the instruments to illustrate the text, like in the bass aria in the New Year's Oratorio 'Fliehe nur, gemessne Zeit' (Flee, measured time), where the first violin's semiquavers are expressing the fleetingness of time. | | | The fact that the St John Passion by Gebel impressed me somewhat more than these oratorios is also due to the level of the performance. | | | The Christmas Oratorio is comparable with the Passion oratorios as they were written from the 1740s on. |
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http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2004/Jan04/Gebel.htm
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| | Bach Choir of Bethlehem |
| | The main key of the oratorio is D major, something it shares with both the Easter Oratorio and Christmas Oratorio. | | | Called an "oratorio," this is, like the Christmas Oratorio, really a cantata-style piece (the Christmas Oratorio, recall, is actually a series of 6 cantatas). | | | 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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| | Emmanuel Music/Christmas Oratorio Program Notes |
| | Scholars have always been worried that the recycling of these works somehow "taints" the sincerity and authenticity of the Christmas Oratorio. | | | A work in this style was probably written for Pentecost but has been lost. | | | Bach's Christmas Oratorio has always seemed to me the ur-Christmas music, simply the profoundest thoughts on the matter ever uttered. |
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http://www.emmanuelmusic.org/pages/prognotes/chris_ora_notes02.htm
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| | Westfield, NJ * Oratorio Singers * Westfield, New Jersey |
| | Now entering its 26th year, Oratorio Singers is a chorus of 70-100 singers which performs major choral works by various composers. | | | The Spring, 2001 concert consisted of four selections: two were world premieres and two were standard, but not usually performed works. | | | For the Spring 2000 concert, Oratorio Singers performed a relatively unknown work of Sir Edward Elgar, "The Music Makers," and the complete "Lobgesang" (Symphony #2 - Choral) of Felix Mendelssohn. |
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http://westfieldnj.com/oratorio
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| | 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. | | | It is shorter (roughly thirty minutes) than the "great" Passions, the Christmas Oratorio or the b minor Mass and it is tucked away in the great volume of the cantatas. | | | Perhaps its reputation has suffered because the major parts of it were parodied from pre-existing (but now lost) secular cantatas. |
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http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/works/bachjs/cantatas/011.html
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| | High School Chorale |
| | Performing under the direction of music teacher Stephen Morse, the chorus specializes in an eclectic mix of styles including classical, contemporary, jazz and spirituals. | | | Rosenbaum and his chorus in several joint rehearsals. | | | Morse, the oratorio society's Artistic Director, Harold Rosenbaum, has been working with the students at the school to prepare them for the concert. |
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http://csis.pace.edu/wos/highschoolchorale.html
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| | Parry: Job - An Oratorio |
| | His star was to a large degree eclipsed by that of his slightly younger contemporary Elgar at the end of his lifetime, but there's no doubt that the latter was strongly influenced by Parry's music, especially when it came to writing his oratorios, as this recording well shows. | | | This fine work has never been recorded before. | | | Apart from Blest Pair of Sirens, little of Parry's choral music has been performed — or recorded — in recent years. |
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http://www2.hyperion-records.co.uk/details/67025.asp
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| | 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. | | | The musical images of Agostino di Duccio, from the Tempio Malatestiano and the Oratorio di S. Bernardino |
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http://www.cilea.it/music/pgabstr/dellapor.htm
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| | CSP: The sacred oratorios give a solo trumpeter much greater scope, although some of the best like The Occasional Oratorio and the Dettingen Te Deum are inexplicably neglected. | | | DV: How does it compare with the other famous trumpet and soprano oratorio aria, "Let the Bright Seraphim" in Samson? | | | CSP: "Let the Bright Seraphim" is not perhaps such a definitive piece, but audiences love it - so let us be glad of any piece which enhances the trumpet's limited repertoire of "great" music. |
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http://gfhandel.org/interviews/SteelePerkins.htm
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| | What is an Oratorio? |
| | The Oratorio had been established as a term for a musical genre in Italy around 1660. | | | Bach's Christmas Oratorio consisted of six parts in cantata form and had a total of 64 musical numbers. | | | Oratorio functioned as an entertainment performed in an oratory (or prayer hall, which is the Italian term for oratorio). |
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http://www.ptloma.edu/music/MUH/genres/oratorio/oratorio.htm
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| | Bach - Christmas Oratorio |
| | She expands her resume with a new remake of The Fog. | | | My Friends' Reviews of Bach - Christmas Oratorio | | | Create a fansite for Bach - Christmas Oratorio |
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http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bach_christmas_oratorio
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| | Oratorio Society of New York - Society History |
| | In this spirit, in 1977, the Society inaugurated a Solo Competition which was designed to encourage the art of oratorio singing and to give young singers an opportunity to advance their careers. | | | The Oratorio Society has always viewed bringing new music to New York audiences as part of its mission. | | | Not the least of these contributions is to the members of the Society itself, amateurs from all walks of life who volunteer their time for the joy of making music together, both at its regularly-scheduled concerts and at numerous guest and benefit appearances as well. |
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http://www.oratoriosocietyofny.org/history.html
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Samson (oratorio) |
| | The premiere was given in London on February 21, 1743. | | | Samson is usually performed as an oratorio in concert form, but on occasions has also been staged as an opera. | | | 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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| | Cumberland Oratorio Singers (C.O.S.), Fayetteville NC |
| | Cumberland Oratorio Singers is supported by the Arts Council of Fayetteville and Cumberland County through private contributions and grants from the | | | Cumberland Oratorio Singers (C.O.S.), Fayetteville NC We enrich the life of the community through classical choral music | | | 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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| | Leroy Robertson's Oratorio from the Book of Mormon |
| | He was one of the first composers to get a PhD (most composers did not seek the degree in his day). | | | This is especially true with the SATB a cappella rendition of "The Lord's Prayer", probably the most known selection from the oratorio. | | | However, a lack of performances, new recordings, and the original recording going out of print have resulted in the work descending into obscurity. |
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http://james.magnusviri.com/music/robertson.html
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| | Amazon.com: Music: Christmas Oratorio |
| | This recording, nominated for a 2001 Grammy, documents as fine a performance of J.S. Bach's Christmas Oratorio as can be found in the catalog. | | | I had the pleasure and privilege to be in Stuttgart when the Christmas Oratorio was recorded. | | | Listeners should simply ignore the labeling and play the music. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004WFG6?v=glance
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| | Santa Barbara Master Chorale |
| | Wagner, Liszt, Dvorák, Berlioz and Franck wrote romantic oratorios. | | | G.F. Handel and J.S. Bach advanced the oratorio in Germany, and Handel inaugurated the English oratorio and his Messiah the prototype for the works of many later composers. | | | Paul were influential works, especially in England where the oratorio was popular in the 19th Century. |
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http://www.sbmasterchorale.org/tradition.html
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| | SendMeMovies.com - Bach, J.S.: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 - SACD |
| | Brich an, du sch”nes Morgenlicht 1:01 2002 13 Johann Sebastian Bach Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248, II. | | | SuperAudioCD - Bach, J.S.: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 - SACD | | | Bach, J.S.: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 - SACD |
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http://www.sendmemovies.com/ps-36355-77-bach-js-christmas-oratorio-bwv-248-sacd.aspx
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| | 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. | | | 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. | | | There can be few meaningful criticisms of this reissued recording. |
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http://www.gfhandel.org/reviews/hwv054parrott.htm
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Music: Bach: Christmas Oratorio |
| | This is the place to find Bach Christmas Oratorio sheet music. | | | This might very well be the ultimate recording of the Christmas Oratorio. | | | The Christmas Oratorio is a bright and brilliant work from the first sound of the timpani and the chorus singing "Christians Be Joyful". |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000057D5
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| | Oratorio |
| | 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. | | | 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 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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| | Chimes Home Page |
| | Many people remember Slenk for his dedication as Music Director. | | | 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. | | | 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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| | This website is provided and provides useful information on the oratorio genre and other useful musical information. | | | This book is on the oratorio and includes compositions by the composers discussed in the text. ¡` u _ u ] 1 _ ªX « " ò ó ' B 0 ß ê r èÍ õ m ÄÍ Ý z | | | The world of the oratorio: oratorio, mass, requiem, te deum, stabat mater and large cantatas. |
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http://web.olivet.edu/~bsenffne/Music.ppt
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| | Artsandentertainment: Haydn oratorio evokes beauty of creation |
| | It was on abundant display Friday night when the Florida Orchestra, Master Chorale and a trio of vocal soloists gave a ravishing performance of his oratorio The Creation under Richard Zielinski at Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. | | | The soloists and their characters were mixed up in the program book, and movement No. 19 was printed out of order in the libretto. | | | Haydn's writing is breathtaking throughout the long work, right from the pure sound of the Representation of Chaos introduction and the amazing C-major chord for the verse "And there was light" in the first chorus. |
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http://www.sptimes.com/2002/11/09/Artsandentertainment/Haydn_oratorio_evokes.shtml
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| | Tampa Oratorio Singers |
| | Tampa Oratorio Singers is proud to receive support from the Arts Council of Hillsborough County and the Hillsborough Board of County Commissioners. | | | The logo of the Tampa Oratorio Singers opens up the five lines of the musical staff to admit the people of Tampa Bay into the spaces. | | | Unless otherwise noted, rehearsals will be held at (more info... |
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http://www.tostampa.org
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| | New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock GA-GH |
| | This "Rock Oratorio" (or Rock Opera) is the brainchild of keyboardist Igor Garsnek, also of Synopsis and Ruja. | | | 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. | | | It features the vocal talents of the late Urmas Alender, the lead vocalist of Ruja. |
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http://www.gepr.net/ga.html
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| | Classical Net - J.S. Bach - Cantata Listener's Guide - BWV 248/III |
| | The cantata draws nearly to a close in relatively low key fashion with the pattern recitative-chorale-recitative-chorale, both chorale settings being straightforward. | | | 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. |
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http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/works/bachjs/cantatas/248-III.html
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