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- From: mgresham@dscatl.UUCP (Mark Gresham)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
- Subject: Re: English Madrigals
- Message-ID: <47558@dscatl.UUCP>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 02:41:39 GMT
- References: <9HFkuB5w165w@student.business.uwo.ca>
- Reply-To: mgresham@dscatl.UUCP (Mark Gresham)
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- In article <9HFkuB5w165w@student.business.uwo.ca> r4smith@student.business.uwo.ca (Richard Smith) writes:
- >Recordings of English madrigals done by the Kings Singers (before they
- >went pop) are pretty hard to beat
-
- Excuse me... BEFORE they went pop? Their very first album
- (Just re-released by Chandos) features a jazz trio as instrumental
- accompaniment.
- Regarding their more recent repertoire, Josquin, Goffredo Petrassi,
- John McCabe and Ned Rorem are hardly examples of "pop." Sure,
- they DO pop (and tenor Bob Chilcott is an excellent arranger).
-
- Incidentally, the King's Singers' 25th Anniversary celebrations
- are at hand this coming year, culminating in a special festival
- on (if memory serves me well) May 2 in AnnArbor, Michigan.
- That will also mark the retirement of the two remaining original
- members, Simon and Alistair.
-
- Cheers,
-
- --Mark Gresham
-
- dscatl!mgresham@gatech.edu
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