An oratorio is a large musical composition including an orchestra , a choir , and solo music solo ists. Like an opera , an oratorio includes the use of a choir, soloists, an ensemble, various distinguishable Fictional character characters , and aria s. However, opera is musical theatre , while oratorio ... presented in concert form. In an oratorio there is generally little or no interaction between the characters ... devices of Romantic love romance , deception , and murder , whereas the plot of an oratorio often deals ... trends toward the secularization of the religious oratorio. Evidence of this lies in its regular ... or secular, the theme of an oratorio is meant to be weighty. It could include such topics as Genesis ... is considered to be the first secular oratorio. George Frideric Handel , most famous today for his ... mythology . He is also credited with writing the first English language oratorio, Esther Handel Esther . The origins of the oratorio can be found in sacred dialogues in Italy. These were settings ... . Philip Neri s Oratory of Saint Philip Neri Congregazione dell Oratorio featured the singing of spiritual ... it is not an oratorio because it features acting and dancing. It does, however contain music in the monodic style. The first oratorio to be called by that name is Pietro della Valle s Oratorio ... types had developed oratorio volgare in Italian language Italian representative examples include ... Rossi Lasting about 30 60 minutes, oratorio volgares were performed in two sections, separated by a sermon their music resembles that of contemporary operas and chamber cantata s. oratorio latino in Latin first developed at the Oratorio del SS. Crocifisso , related to the church of San Marcello al Corso in Rome The most significant composer of oratorio latino is Giacomo Carissimi, whose Jephte ..., often monumental and meant to convey a sense of glory. Frequently the instruments for oratorio ... by Oratorio Chorus.ogg title Oratorio chorus performing Hallelujah description An oratorio chorus ... more details
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Handel oratorios An Occasional Oratorio HWV 62 is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel , based upon a libretto by Newburgh Hamilton after the poetry of John Milton and Edmund Spenser . Handel composed the Occasional Oratorio hastily in January and February of 1746 and premiered it immediately on 14 February 1746. It contains 44 movements split over three parts. The famous chorus Prepare the Hymn a paraphrase of Psalm 81 1 2 is the 26th movement and appears in the second part. The second minuet from the Music for the Royal Fireworks was reused from this oratorio. ref C. Hogwood, Handel Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks Cambridge University Press, p. 133 ref References reflist External links IMSLP2 id The Occasional Oratorio, HWV 62 Handel, George Frideric http gfhandel.org 43to100.htm HWV62 An Occasional Oratorio at http www.gfhandel.org gfhandel.org . Full text http opera.stanford.edu iu libretti occasion.htm libretto hosted by Stanford University . Category Oratorios by George Frideric Handel Category 1746 works classical composition stub ... more details
The Easter Oratorio in German Oster Oratorium , BWV 249, is an oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach , Kommt, eilet und laufet Come, hasten and run , first performed in Leipzig in 1725. History The first version of the work was completed as a Bach cantata cantata for Easter Easter Sunday in Leipzig on April 1, 1725, then under the title Kommt, gehet und eilet . ref name D rr Alfred D rr . 1971. Die Kantaten von Johann Sebastian Bach , B renreiter in German ref It was named oratorio and given the new title only in a version revised in 1735. In a later version in the 1740s the third movement was expanded from a duet to a four part chorus. ref name D rr The work is based on a secular cantata, the so called Shepherd Cantata Entfliehet, verschwindet, entweichet, ihr Sorgen, BWV 249a which is now lost, although the libretto survives. Its author is Picander who is also likely the author of the oratorio s text. The work is opened by two instrumental movements that are probably taken from a concerto of the K then period. It seems possible that the third movement is based on the concerto s finale. ref name D rr Structure The oratorio different from the Christmas Oratorio has no narrator but four characters assigned to the four voice parts Simon Peter tenor and John the Apostle bass , appearing in the first duet hurrying to Jesus grave and finding it empty, meeting there Mary Magdalene alto and the other Mary , Mary of Clopas Mary Jacobe soprano . The choir was present only in the final movement ... Music The oratorio opens with two contrasting instrumental movements, an Allegro concerto grosso of the full ... reflist External links IMSLP2 id Easter Oratorio, BWV 249 Bach, Johann Sebastian cname Easter Oratorio http www.bach cantatas.com Vocal BWV249.htm Easter Oratorio BWV 249 on bach cantatas http ... Oratorio, BWV 249 on WorldCat Category Oratorios Category Compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach bg de Oster Oratorium Bach eo Oster Oratorium Bach fr Oratorio de P ques hu H sv ti ... more details
Image Abimelech 01.jpg thumb 200px Title page of Abimelech libretto Abimelech is an oratorio in three acts written by Christopher Smart and put to music by Samuel Arnold composer Samuel Arnold . It was first performed in Haymarket theater in 1768. A heavily revised version of the oratorio ran at the Covent Garden in 1772. Abimelech was the second of two oratorio librettos written by Smart, the first being Hannah oratorio Hannah written in 1764. Just like Hannah , Abimelech ran for only one night, each time. It was to be Smart s last work dedicated to an adult audience. Abimelech retells the biblical story of Abraham and Sarah when they Abraham Sarah and Pharaoh met the King of Gerar , Abimelech , and he tries to take Sarah as his wife. After God intervenes in a dream, Sarah, who was previously barren, is restored to Abraham and made fertile. The oratorio emphasizes the sexual jealous and the sexual fidelity of spouses. Background Years before, Smart wrote a libretto for an Hannah oratorio Background oratorio called Hannah . ref name Sherbo p. 245 Sherbo p. 245 ref Like Hannah , Smart most likely wrote the work out of a need to earn money. ref name Anderson p. 49 Anderson p. 49 ref However, his previous oratorio only lasted a few nights, and Smart hoped that his second could succeed where the other failed. ref name Sherbo p. 245 This would be the last work in Smart s final years ... of the oratorio at the Covent Garden in 1772. ref name Smart p. 161 Smart 1983 p. 161 ref These works ... returns Sarah to Abraham but criticizes Abraham for lying. ref name Smart p. 159 The oratorio ... from such a form as Sarah s? Abimelech 94 99 As the oratorio continues, there is emphasis that only ... Garden, a reviewer in The Theatrical Review claimed that the oratorio was changed greatly for the better ... claimed that Abimelech was a very pleasing Oratorio, though there is great sameness in the songs, but the chorusses ... Smart DEFAULTSORT Abimelech Oratorio Category 1768 operas Category 1768 poems Category 1772 ... more details
Judith was an oratorio written by Thomas Arne and Isaac Bickerstaffe Isaac Bickerstaff . It was first performed at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane Drury Lane Theatre on 27 February 1761. ref Tasch p.40 ref It is based on the Book of Judith . During a 1767 benefit performance a song from Judith was used for the first ever use of a piano forte in England. ref Tasch p.40 ref References references Bibliography Tasch, Peter A. The Dramatic Cobbler The Life and Works of Isaac Bickerstaff . Associated University Presses, 1971. Music stub Category Oratorios Category 1761 compositions ... more details
Image Hannah 01.jpg thumb 200px Title page of Hannah libretto Hannah is an oratorio in three acts by Christopher Smart with a score composed by John Worgan . It was first performed in Haymarket theater 3 April 1764. It was supposed to have a second performance, but that performance was postponed and eventually cancelled over a lack of singers. A libretto was published for its run and a libretto with full score was published later that year. Hannah tells the story of Hannah and of her devotion to God which resulted in her being blessed with fertility by God. It was the first of two oratorio librettos written by Smart, the second being Abimelech oratorio Abimelech . Background In 1763, Christopher Smart was released from Christopher Smart s asylum confinement Mr Potter.27s madhouse Mr. Potter s madhouse . ref Sherbo p. 164 ref While working on a translation of the Psalms and of Horace s writings, Smart needed to earn money to support himself. ref name Mounsey p. 264 Mounsey p. 264 ref He ... of Oratorio appealed to Smart because of its financial benefits and its being grounded in the sacred . ref name Smart p. 156 Smart defined an oratorio as blockquote a sacred opera deducing its fable ... sublime , than that of which the oratorio consists and consequently, an exalted genius can no where ... , p. 223 ref blockquote In order to help produce his first oratorio, Smart turned to John Worgan to compose ... in the Public Advertiser on 1 May 1764 read blockquote The Favourable RECEPTION of the ORATORIO ... until next Winter. As several are desirous of knowing when the Songs in this Oratorio will be published ... by a professional copyist and a note on the final page says, This Oratorio is intended to be perform ... Dearnley p. 219 Dearnley p. 219 ref The oratorio begins with Peninnah singing When Abraham threw himself ... ref The earthly mannerisms of Peninnah and her maids were emphasized in the oratorio for theatrical ... because of Handel s popularity in London at the time, and It is owing to this iniquitous idolatry that the oratorio ... more details
Elijah , in German Elias , is an oratorio written by Felix Mendelssohn in 1846 for the Birmingham Triennial Music Festival Birmingham Festival . It depicts various events in the life of the Biblical prophet Elijah , taken from the books 1 Kings and 2 Kings in the Old Testament . The music and its style This piece was composed in the spirit of Mendelssohn s Baroque music Baroque predecessors Johann Sebastian Bach Bach and Georg Frideric Handel Handel , whose music he loved. In 1829, Mendelssohn had organized the first performance of Bach s St Matthew Passion since the composer s death, and was instrumental in bringing this and other of Bach s works to widespread popularity. In contrast, Handel s oratorios never went out of fashion in England at any rate . Mendelssohn prepared a scholarly edition of some of Handel s oratorios for publication in London. Elijah is modeled on the oratorios of these two Baroque masters however, the style clearly reflects, in its lyricism and use of orchestral and choral colour, Mendelssohn s own genius as an early Romantic music Romantic composer. The work ... 23, 2009 ref Upon being commissioned by the Birmingham Festival to write an oratorio, however, Mendelssohn had the libretto translated into English, and the oratorio was premiered in the English version. The Biblical narrative For the Biblical background to the oratorio, see the article Elijah . Mendelssohn ... many scholars have speculated about this. In the final section of the oratorio, some draw parallels ... had earlier supplied the text for the oratorio St. Paul oratorio Paulus St. Paul , wanted to bring a Christian perspective to the end of the oratorio, but Mendelssohn insisted that the story of Elijah ... most of the demands of the oratorio, and nowiki nowiki his oratorios, which also include St. Paul ... Mendelssohn de Elias Mendelssohn eo Elias Mendelssohn fr Elias oratorio he ja fi Elias oratorio sv Elias oratorium ... more details
Gethsemane is a chamber oratorio by the British composer, Matthew King composer Matthew King . Commissioned for the opening concert of the 1998 Spitalfields Festival , the work was composed for the early music group, Florilegium early music ensemble Florilegium and is scored for 4 vocalists soprano, alto, tenor, bass and a Baroque ensemble consisting of flute solo, 2 oboes, 3 natural trumpets, strings, harpsichord and percussion. The oratorio uses a compilation of Biblical texts to relate the New Testament narrative from Christ s triumphal entry into Jerusalem until his arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane . Each of the four vocalists represents several characters in the story and all four join together to sing collectively as disciples, pharisees and various crowds. Certain instruments within the ensemble are used to represent characters in the drama for example, Christ is always accompanied with a flute, the pharisees are joined by rumbling timpani and Judas by a solo harpsichord. After the first performance, the critic Roderick Dunnett described King s Gethsemane as passion music in the great tradition ref The Church Times, June 1998, Roderick Dunnett s review of the Spitalfields Festival s opening concert ref whilst Michael White wrote in The Independent that there s an innocence about the music which is honest, heartfelt, full of what a German would call ear worms ideas that dig deep into the listener s mind. ref The Independent on Sunday, June 7, 1998, Michael White At last a really festive festival ref References reflist Sources http www.independent.co.uk life style music at last a really festive festival 1163358.html Michael White s review of Gethsemane in The Independent on Sunday, June 7 1998 Category Compositions by Matthew King Category Oratorios classical composition stub ... more details
about the Christmas Oratorio by J.S. Bach Christmas Oratorios by other composers Christmas Oratorio disambiguation ... Botticelli The Christmas Oratorio Lang de Weihnachtsoratorium Bach Werke Verzeichnis BWV 248, is an oratorio ... de Eduard Grell Eduard Grell . The Christmas Oratorio is a particularly sophisticated example of parody ... Ascension Oratorio BWV 11 and the Easter Oratorio BWV 249 . All include a tenor Evangelist Bach Evangelist as narrator and parody earlier compositions, although the Christmas Oratorio is by far the longest and most complex work. The oratorio is in six parts, each part being intended for performance ... arrived, which was unsuitable for an oratorio evidently planned as a coherent whole. Bach removed the content ... Pickett s recording of the Christmas Oratorio Decca Records Decca , 458 838, 1997 ref this points ... The oratorio was written for performance on six feast days of Christmas during the winter ... is written in F major the relative key to D minor and marks the furthest musical point away from the oratorio ... cantatas which provide the basis for the Christmas Oratorio , are BWV 213 La t uns sorgen ... Eliot Gardiner s recording of the Christmas Oratorio Deutsche Grammophon Archiv, 4232322, 1987 ... Oratorio is of its sources. Musicologist Alfred D rr ref name D rr Alfred D rr , sleeve notes to Nikolaus Harnoncourt s first recording of the Christmas Oratorio Warner Music Group Warner Das ... Oratorio Warner Erato Records Erato , 0630 14635 2, 1997 ref have suggested that Bach s sometime ... Oratorio was already planned when Bach wrote the secular cantatas BWV 213, 214 and 215, given that the original works were written fairly close to the oratorio and the seamless way with which ... the original plan and was compelled to write new music for the Christmas Oratorio . The alto aria in Part ... together the oratorio into a coherent whole. In particular, Bach made particularly effective use of recitative ... Juloratoriet film Juloratoriet 1996 English title Christmas Oratorio . ref Imdb title 0116725 Juloratoriet ... more details
Christmas Oratorio Lang de Weihnachts Oratorium Bach Werke Verzeichnis BWV 248, is an oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach Other than Bach, composers who wrote Christmas Oratorios were Camille Saint Sa ns Christmas Oratorio Lang fr Oratorio de No l , opus number Op. 12 Heinrich Sch tz Christmas Oratorio Lang de Weihnachts Oratorium , 1664 disambig ... more details
Wikify date October 2010 notability date October 2010 The Oratorio de No l , Opus 12, by Camille Saint Sa ns , also known as Christmas Oratorio , in dimensions hardly exceeds the limits of a cantata, but musically is constructed in oratorio style. ref p. 269, Upton 1890 George Putnam. Chicago The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their music, and Their Composers a handbook A. C. McClurg and Company ref The Christmas Oratorio of Saint Saens sic is a delightful substitute for endless Messiah Handel Messiah performances. ref p. 78, Van Horn 1979 James. Westport, Connecticut The Community Orchestra A Handbook for Conductors, Managers and Boards Greenwood Press ref While an organist at glise de la Madeleine Madeleine , Saint Sa ns wrote the oratorio in less than a fortnight, completing it ten days before its premiere on Christmas 1858. ref p. 566, Smither 2000 Howard. Chapel Hill, North Carolina A History of the Oratorio The Oratorio in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries UNC Press books ref References reflist External links IMSLP2 id Oratorio de No l, Op.12 Saint Sa ns, Camille allmusic class work id c5709 DEFAULTSORT Oratorio De Noel Category Christmas music music stub de Oratorio de No l pl Oratorium na Bo e Narodzenie Saint Sa ns ... more details
The Oratorio Society of Chicago was an oratorio performance group, based out of Chicago, Illinois . It was founded in 1866, and destroyed by a fire in 1872. The Handel and Haydn Society of Boston then sent money for the Oratorio Society to be rebuilt, and it reformed as the Apollo Club , one of the music prestigious musical clubs in the country. ref Burk, Meierhoff and Phillips, pg. 157 ref It was led by Hans Balatka . ref http www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org pages 286.html Chicago History ref References http www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org pages 286.html Chicago History Notes reflist DEFAULTSORT Oratorio Society Of Chicago Category Organizations based in Chicago, Illinois Category Music organizations based in the United States music org stub ... more details
Infobox musical composition Name First Light An Oratorio Cover First Light An Oratorio World premiere 2005 C. E. CD album artwork resized to 400 pixels high.png Alt First Light An Oratorio World premiere 2005 C. E. CD album artwork Type Oratorio Composer Sally Lutyens Year 2005 C. E. Period 21st century Style Modern music Modern First Light An Oratorio is a 2005 C. E. oratorio by composer Sally Lutyens . The words are from the book First Light Acadia National Park and Maine s Mount Desert Island , by Charles R. Tyson, Jr . It was composed with the intention of being a multimedia performance to be shown with photographs by Tom Blagden, Jr . It was first performed at St Saviour s Church in Bar Harbor , Maine on 27 and 28 August 2005 C. E. ref http www.friendsofacadia.org journal fall2005 fall2005.pdf ref This performance was recorded and sold as CDs, and as DVDs, which included the slideshow. References references Category Oratorios music stub ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Oratorio is a municipality in the Santa Rosa Department, Guatemala Santa Rosa Departments of Guatemala department of Guatemala . On the outskirts of the regional centerplace, Cuilapa, Oratorio is mainly an agricultural worker habitat. It is surrounded by vast coffee bean and banana plantations . Oratorio sits in a deep valley, so the sun rises late and sets early. The small city is stretched along one of the international 2 lane highways that leads to El Salvador. The stretch of land makes for a very narrow but long city outline. Pollution from semi trucks and buses gathers inside the high valley mountain walls. Santa Rosa Guatemalan department coord 14.2281 N 90.1758 W source kolossus itwiki display title Category Municipalities of the Santa Rosa Department Guatemala Category Populated places in Guatemala Guatemala geo stub it Oratorio Guatemala ... more details
File Oratorio Vanchetoni.JPG thumb right 180px The Oratory of the Vanchetoni The Oratorio dei Vanchetoni or Oratory of the Vanchetoni is a prayer hall for the Arch confraternity of San Francesco , in Florence , Tuscany , Italy . The society was founded by Ippolito Galantini beatus Ippolito Galantini 1565 1619 , and had the purpose of educating poor children on the Christian doctrine . The members of the Company were called vanchetoni , for their habit of walking quietly, and bacchetoni , in reference to the used baton for penitential self scourging. The confraternity building was designed by matteo Nigetti Matteo and Giovanni Nigetti in 1602 1604, and built in land once the orchard of the Church of Ognissanti . The long hall where the confratelli gathered, was frescoed between 1633 1649 by quadri riportati of saints by Giovanni Martinelli painter Giovanni Martinelli , Domenico Pugliani , Baldassare Franceschini il Volterrano, Cecco Bravo and Lorenzo Lippi . Galantini was posthumously made venerable in 1765, and beatified in 1825. Today, the oratory is used for chamber concert s and small meetings. External links http www.targetti.com projects en page Tipologie idcat 6 CHURCHES AND HISTORICAL BUILDINGS idscheda 420 VANCHETONI FRATERNAL ORDER idfoto 1458 Photos of Oratorio http www.santitoscani.it beato ippolito galantini vanchetoni.html Biography of Ippolito Galantini. coord 43 46 23.76 N 11 14 49.89 E source itwiki region IT display title DEFAULTSORT Oratorio Dei Vanchetoni Category Churches in Florence it Oratorio dei Vanchetoni ... more details
File Oratorio dei Filippini Rome.jpg thumb tight upright 1.7 The facade of the oratory File Borromini Drawing 01.jpg thumb upright 1.3 The facade the oratory 1720 engraving File Oratorio dei Filippini clock tower.jpg thumb upright 0.9 The turret with a clock, by Borromini. The Oratorio dei Filippini Oratory of Saint Phillip Neri is a building located in Rome and erected between 1637 and 1650 by Francesco Borromini . He belonged to the Congregation of the Oratory , founded by Philip Neri in 1561. It was there that, in 1600, Emilio de Cavalieri s La rappresentazione di anima e di corpo , regarded as one of the first examples of the genre of the oratorio , was given for the first time. The oratory of Filippini is adjacent to the Chiesa Nuova , the mother church of the congregation. In front of the two sides was a small closed square, now integrated in the Corso Vittorio Emanuele II. History The congregation of the Filippini already had one of the most well decorated Baroque churches in Rome, and the order, so enthralled by the piousness encouraged by music, had planned to build an oratory, as well as a residential quarters, adjacent to the church of Santa Maria in Vallicella Chiesa Nuova located in crowded central Rome. Borromini won a competition for designing the structure against many including Paolo Maruscelli . He was employed in the task for 13 years, often a testy process. By 1640, the oratory was in use, by 1643, the library was complete. Description The striking facade adjacent to the church entrance has little regard for the structures behind. Inside the oratory is articulated by half columns and a complex rhythm of pilasters. The facade provides a summary of Borromini ... des Philippins 2009 06 29 commons cat Oratorio dei Filippini Rome commonscat Francesco Borromini ... Oratorio Dei Filippini Category Roman Baroque Category Baroque sites of Lazio Category Roman Catholic churches in Rome de Oratorium des Hl. Filippo Neri fr Oratoire des Philippins it Oratorio dei ... more details
The Oratorio del Gonfalone or Oratory of the Banner is a building in Central Rome which once housed a Catholic fraternity. Founded in 1264 under the name of the Accomandati di Madonna Santa Maria , over the centuries the group dedicated itself to various activities, including the participation in religious processions as banner carriers wearing white gowns with peaked blue hoods , and also of putting on a yearly passion play. They also were involved in charity towards the poor and needy, and during 1581 1765, of freeing Italians enslaved in Muslim and Slavic lands. The fraternity was awarded the Golden Rose in 1526 by Clement VII , and given by Julius II in 1550 the prerogative to pardon one individual. In 1890, the fraternity was dissolved and its property confiscated by the state. The building on Via del Gonfalone 32a near corner of Via Giulia and Vicolo della Scimmia has a modest fa ade designed by Domenico Castelli resembling a simple church. Inside, a team of prominent Mannerism Mannerist painters were recruited between 1569 1576 to complete elaborate wall fresco decoration of scenes of the passion. Artists included Giacomo Zanguidi il Bertoia Entry of Christ to Jerusalem Livio Agresti Last Supper Marco Pino Crown of Thorns , Marcantonio dal Forno Federico Zuccari Flagellation of Christ Raffaellino Motta da Reggio Christ before Pontius Pilate and Prophet and Sibyls and Cesare Nebbia Crown of Thorns and Ecce Homo . The main altarpiece is painted by Roviale Spagnolo . The site has been called the Sistine chapel of Mannerism . The Passion panels are flanked by quadratura spiral columns said to have been of the type found in the Temple of Solomon and surmounted by images ... two other Oratorio del Gonfalone in Italy, also highly decorated in the interior, one at Fabriano ... Oratorio Del Gonfalone Category Visitor attractions in Rome Category Places of worship in Rome Category Mannerist architecture it Oratorio del Gonfalone Roma no Oratorio del Gonfalone sv Oratorio ... more details
File Foligno067.jpg thumb Stabat Mater art Stabat Mater painting and Crucifix at the oratory, by No l Quillerier , 1625 1626 File Foligno064.jpg thumb Baptism of Christ by Pietro Perugino The Oratorio della Nunziatella is a 15th Century Renaissance Oratory worship oratory in Foligno , Italy . It is near the 18 Century Chiesa del Suffragio and is named after the Virgin of the Annunciation , considered in those days to be the patron saint of the city. It was restored in the 19th Century. Among the decorations is a famous fresco of the Baptism of Jesus painted between 1497 and 1507 by Pietro Perugino . Sources Hospitalia http www.ospitalitalia.it arte scheda.php.id.36564 Umbria PG Foligno Oratorio della Nunziatella.html Italy church stub RC stub coord missing Italy Category 15th century architecture Category Chapels in Italy Category buildings and structures in Foligno ... more details
The Oratorio Society of New York is a non profit membership organization which performs choral music in the oratorio style. The Society was founded in 1873 by Leopold Damrosch, and it is New York City s second oldest cultural organization. Kent Tritle was appointed as the Society s 11th music director in January 2006, succeeding Lyndon Woodside who died the previous year. History The Oratorio Society presented its first concert on December 3, 1873. One year later, on Christmas night, the Society began what has become an unbroken tradition of annual performances of Handel s Messiah Handel Messiah at Carnegie Hall , since its opening in 1891 . In 1884 Andrew Carnegie joined the Society s board of directors, serving as its president from 1888 to 1919. Three years after joining the board perhaps at the suggestion of his wife, Louise Whitfield Carnegie , an alto singing with the Society, or perhaps at the suggestion of young Walter Damrosch , who had taken over as conductor of the Society after his father s death in 1885 Carnegie decided to add his support to a fund the Society had begun several years earlier, the goal of which was to build a hall suitable for the performance of choral music. He engaged a fellow board member, the architect William Tuthill , to design the Music Hall , now known as Carnegie Hall . During the five day festival in May 1891 that inaugurated the new hall, the Society performed under the batons of Walter Damrosch and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in the first ... programs was one in April 1923 when, in conjunction with the experimental radio station, WEAF, the Oratorio ..., it was quite active in furthering the popularity of this new medium. The Oratorio Society has ... a solo competition which was designed to encourage the art of oratorio singing and to give young singers an opportunity to advance their careers. In 2006, it was renamed the Lyndon Woodside Oratorio ... Liszt Academy of Music . External links http www.oratoriosocietyofny.org Oratorio Society of New ... more details
Infobox Album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Paul McCartney s Liverpool Oratorio Type Live album Artist Paul McCartney and Carl Davis Cover LiverpoolOratorioCover.jpg Released 11 October 1991 Recorded 28 & 29 June 1991 Genre European classical music Classical Length 1 37 28 Label EMI Classics Producer John Fraser Reviews Allmusic Rating 2 5 Allmusic class album id r74685 pure url yes link Chronology Paul McCartney Last album Unplugged The Official Bootleg br 1991 This album Paul McCartney s Liverpool Oratorio br 1991 Next album Off the Ground br 1993 Paul McCartney s Liverpool Oratorio is Paul McCartney s first official foray into European classical music classical music and was released in 1991. Composed in collaboration with Carl Davis to commemorate The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra s 150th anniversary, the project received a large amount of media attention upon its unveiling in June 1991. Broken up into eight separate movements, the story of the oratorio loosely follows McCartney s own lifeline, with the main character, Shanty, who is born in 1942 in Liverpool, raised to believe that being born where you are born carries with it certain responsibilities . After his school days where he often sagged off Liverpool Scouse slang for skipping class , Shanty began working and meets his future bride, Mary Dee. Following the death of his father, Shanty and Mary Dee are married and are forced to deal with the rigours of balancing a happy marriage and their careers. Amid a quarrel, Mary Dee reveals that she is pregnant and after surviving a nearly fatal accident, gives ... at the oratorio s premiere at Liverpool Cathedral with McCartney in attendance and features noted ... the roles in the oratorio. The commercial reaction for the work, predictably, was strong, with the oratorio ... es Liverpool Oratorio fr Paul McCartney s Liverpool Oratorio it Paul McCartney s Liverpool Oratorio ja ru Paul McCartney s Liverpool Oratorio ... more details
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Refimprove date May 2008 Adams operas El Ni o is an opera oratorio by the United States American composer John Adams composer John Adams . It was premiered on December 15, 2000 at Paris s Th tre du Ch telet by the Deutsches Symphony Orchestra , the London Voices , the Theater of Voices , La Ma trise de Paris and soloists Dawn Upshaw , Lorraine Hunt Lieberson and Willard White , with Kent Nagano conducting. It has been performed on a number of occasions since, and has been broadcast on BBC television. Described by Adams as a nativity of Jesus nativity oratorio , the piece is designed to be performed equally well in both concert and stage settings, and uses texts from the King James Bible , Wakefield Mystery Plays and poems by Mexico Mexican poet Rosario Castellanos as well as Adams and librettist Peter Sellars . It retells the Christmas story, with the first half of focusing on Blessed Virgin Mary Mary s thoughts before the birth and the second half on the aftermath of the birth in the stable in Bethlehem , Herod the Great Herod s slaughter of the Holy Innocents and the early life of Jesus . The text follows the traditional biblical story of the birth of Jesus but also incorporates poetry from a wide range of sources. Included are poems by Rosario Castellanos , Sor Juana In s de la Cruz , Gabriela Mistral , and Rub n Dario . The work also includes selected passages from the Wakefield Mystery Play , Martin Luther s Christmas Sermon, the Gospel of Luke , and several gnostic gospels from the Apocrypha . John Adams also quotes Gabriela Mistral Gabriela Mistral s The Christmas Star and a choral setting of O quam preciosa by Hildegard von Bingen . Performers The work is scored for soprano , mezzo soprano and baritone soloists, a trio of counter tenor s and forty five piece orchestra which includes two guitar s and a sampling keyboard , SATB chorus, and children s chorus. The work can be performed either as a fully staged production or as a concert oratorio. The fully staged ... more details
The Oratorio Society of Baltimore was founded by Otto Sutro in 1882, with Fritz Finke as music director. Its first performance came in 1885. References cite book title Grove s Dictionary of Music and Musicians author George Grove coauthors Waldo Selden Pratt, Charles Newell Boyd year 1920 publisher T. Presser cite book title New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Volume 2 Aristoxenus to Bax chapter Baltimore last Galkin first Elliott W. coauthors N. Quist pages 611 612 editor Stanley Sadie Ed. publisher MacMillan Publishers year 2001 id ISBN 0333608003 location New York cite book title Baltimore Its History and Its People author Clayton Colman Hall publisher Lewis Historical Publishing Co. year 1912 pages 654 url http books.google.com books?id vCy9GAlzntAC&pg PA1&lpg PA1&dq 22Baltimore Its History and Its People 22&source web&ots jayH4 Q fe&sig 2A8arVxUkR1 E9ivq1NuUh1LG0g&hl en&sa X&oi book result&resnum 1&ct result PPA655,M1 Category Organizations based in Baltimore, Maryland music org stub ... more details
Paulus in English St. Paul is an oratorio by Felix Mendelssohn Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy . The libretto was begun in 1832 by the composer with Pastor Julius Schubring, a childhood friend, pulling together passages from the New Testament chiefly the Acts of the Apostles and Old Testament . It also features chorales or hymn settings after Bach s manner. The oratorio, which is in two parts, begins with an introduction s 1 3 , and continues with the martyr dom of St. Stephen , and Saint Paul St Paul s conversion and baptism s 12 22 . Part two continues with the mission of Paul and Barnabas s 23 27 , Paul persecution at the hands of his former co religionists s 28 31 , the healing of the lame man of Lystra s 32 36 , the resistance of the Jews and heathen s 37 40 , Paul s departure from Ephesus s 41 43 , and following the mention of his martyrdom, a final chorus based on psalm 103. Composition of the music began in 1834, and St. Paul was premiered on May 22, 1836 at the Lower Rhenish Music Festival in D sseldorf . Numerous performances followed in Europe and later in the United States . The English premiere was in Liverpool on 3 October 1836 in a translation by Mendelssohn s friend, Karl Klingermann. Contralto Mary Shaw contralto Mary Shaw was one of the soloists at the English premiere. During Mendelssohn s lifetime, St Paul was a popular and frequently performed work. However, compared with such oratorios as Handel s Messiah Messiah , the Bach Christmas Oratorio and St Matthew Passion or even Mendelssohn s own Elijah oratorio Elijah it has failed to maintain its place in the choral repertory and is now rarely performed in its entirety. ref http www.bard.edu news releases pr fstory.php?id 1717 Bard College website . Accessed August 10, 2009. ref Instrumentation Soprano br Mezzo Soprano br Tenor br Bass br Mixed and women s Choir choruses Strings, Flutes , Oboes , horn instrument Horns , Trumpet Cornet , Trombones Alto Tenor Bass, Ophicleide a successor to the Serpent instrument ... more details
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