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unusual facts about oratorio


Hebdów

Several new ornaments, altars and paintings were added to the church at that time, including the so-called Oratorio Chapel.


1745 in poetry

Charles Jennens, Belshazzar: An oratorio, verse and music; performed in March; music by Handel

Andy Kirshner

An Evening with Tony Amore for jazz voice and orchestra based on the persona of Frank Sinatra; Who It Is, a one-man musical about race and nationalism; the opera-oratorio The Watchtower inspired by apocalyptic TV newscasts and the Book of Isaiah; Dr. Nathan Feelgood In Person, an operetta for 10-piece blues band and a singing psychiatrist; and a cold-war musical for children with Dan Hurlin The Day the Earth Stood Still.

Antonio Nola

Il Culto Mariano e l'Oratorio Filippino nella Napoli del'600 Cappella della Pietà de' Turchini dir.

ASD Mozzanica

Founded in 2002 in Mozzanica as A.S. Oratorio Mozzanica, Mozzanica played before 2002 some local C.S.I. (Centro Sportivo Italiano) championships.

Bruce Boyce

After demobilization, Boyce decided to base his home and career in London starting with two recitals at Wigmore Hall in 1946, after which he was soon re-established as a recitalist and oratorio singer.

Carl Amand Mangold

Wittekind, Oratorio - on Widukind, the Saxon leader against Charlemagne during the Saxon Wars.

Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia

The Orchestra also performed the world premiere of a PIFA commission, Hope: An Oratorio by Jonathan Leshnoff, with the Pennsylvania Girlchoir, the Mendelssohn Club Chorus of Philadelphia, and soloists Angelique Kidjo and David Linx, in the Kimmel Center’s Verizon Hall.

Charles Camilleri

His works include the now famous Malta Suite, Maltese Dances, A Maltese Overture - Din l-Art Helwa, operas in Maltese, a ballet based on the Knights of Malta and the oratorio Pawlu ta' Malta.

Charles Kensington Salaman

Salaman adapted "He that Shall Endure to the End" from Mendelssohn's Elijah as a setting for Psalm 93 (Adonai Malakh), sung on most Friday nights in the sabbath eve service of the London Spanish & Portuguese Jewish community.

Charles Zeuner

His oratorio “The Feast of Tabernacles,” which was published in 1832, was premiered by the Boston Academy of Music in 1837 at the Odeon.

Filippo Maria Bressan

For Tactus Records, Bressan recorded the Vespro della Beata Vergine Maria of Pier Francesco Cavalli, then for Chandos Records a series of world premiere recordings of Venetian late baroque works: Benedetto Marcello's requiem (1999), then the opera Arianna (2000), Antonio Calegari's 1779 oratorio La Resurrezione di Lazzaro and the Messa per San Marco of Baldassarre Galuppi (2003).

Fire Water Paper: A Vietnam Oratorio

Fire Water Paper: A Vietnam Oratorio is a large scale orchestral oratorio composed by Elliot Goldenthal, commissioned by the Pacific Symphony Orchestra in 1993 for the 20th Anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War.

Francesco Lotoro

His activity has been focused on Johann Sebastian Bach; he has transcribed the The Musical Offering for two pianos, the Brandenburg Concertos, the Deutsche Messe and the Canons on the Goldberg ground, BWV 1087; and he reconstructed, performed and recorded the Christmas Oratorio for solo strings, mixed choir and piano by Friedrich Nietzsche.

Gruppo Sportivo Oratorio Villa Cortese

Gruppo Sportivo Oratorio Villa Cortese is an Italian volleyball club based in Villa Cortese in the Province of Milan.

Henry Hart Milman

In subsequent poetical works he was more successful, notably the Fall of Jerusalem (1820) and The Martyr of Antioch (1822, based on the life of Saint Margaret the Virgin), which was used as the basis for an oratorio by Arthur Sullivan.

Horacio Ferrer

He worked with a series of renowned tango musicians such as Roberto Grela, Leopoldo Federico and Paul Garello and with Horacio Salgán he composed the Oratorio Carlos Gardel in 1975.

Horatio Parker

Before leaving New York City in 1893, Parker had completed his oratorio, Hora Novissima, set to the opening words of De contemptu mundi by Bernard of Cluny.

Howard Frazin

Frazin's oratorio, The Voice of Isaac, commissioned by PALS Children's Chorus, was premiered at Boston's Jordan Hall in March 2003 and praised by the Boston Globe as "...clear in design and Brittenesque in texture...ingeniously scored...(having an) almost unbearable poignancy."

Jan Schultsz

He accompanied the master courses of Hermann Baumann and Paul Tortelier and lead the Lieder and oratorio class at the Bruckner Conservatory Linz.

Jayne West

In 2009, West appeared with the Boston Secession in the world-premiere performance of Ruth Lomon's Testimony of Witnesses, a concert-length oratorio based on the poetry and writings of survivors and victims of the Holocaust, under the direction of Jane Ring Frank.

John Liptrot Hatton

In 1875 he went to Stuttgart, and wrote an oratorio, Hezekiah, given at The Crystal Palace in 1877; like all his larger works it met with moderate success.

John Reeves

John Sims Reeves (1821–1900), English operatic, oratorio and ballad tenor vocalist

Kazuyoshi Akiyama

With the Tokyo Symphony, he conducted the Japanese premieres of Schoenberg's Moses und Aron, John Adams' El Niño and Lachenman's The Little Match Girl.

Kenneth Oram

The St Cyprian's Cathedral Choir at this period performed such works as Messiah (Handel), Elijah (Mendelssohn) and Bach's Christmas Oratorio.

Keyboard glockenspiel

It was first used by Handel in the oratorio Saul (1739), and later in the 1739 revivals of his Il Trionfo del Tempo and Acis and Galatea, and the next year in L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato.

Les Béatitudes

The full oratorio was not performed until after Franck's death, on March 19, 1893 in Colonne.

Lina Bruna Rasa

Bruna Rasa created the roles of Atte in Mascagni's Nerone, Cecilia Sagredo in Franco Vittadini's La Sagredo and Saint Clare in Licinio Refice's 1926 oratorio, Trittico Francescano.

Louisa Bassano

Louisa sang the mezzo recitatives in the first English performance of Mendelssohn's Elijah conducted by the composer.

Maria Linley

She was trained as a singer by her father Thomas Linley the elder (one of 7 musical siblings born to him and his wife Mary Johnson) and performed in the Drury Lane oratorios and in concerts until her early death.

Massenet Festival

The first Massenet Festival took place in November 1990 when the opera Cléopâtre and the oratorio La Vierge were presented.

Njål Sparbo

Among his performances are Mahler’s ”Lieder eines fahrendes Gesellen” with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields in London, Bach’s ”Christmas Oratorio” with the Drottningholm's Baroque Orchestra in Uppsala and Rossini’s ”Petite Messe Sollenelle” in Köln Philharmonie, Kverno's "St. Matthew Passion" in New York and Manoa in Handel's "Samson" at the London Handel Festival.

Oratorio del Gonfalone

Note there are at least two other Oratorio del Gonfalone in Italy, also highly decorated in the interior, one at Fabriano and the other at Vicenza.

Oratorio Society of Chicago

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.

Peter Oundjian

In June 2007, Oundjian conducted the world premiere of an oratorio by Idle and John DuPrez based on the Monty Python movie Life of Brian, titled Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy), at the first Luminato Festival in Toronto, Canada.

Polly Young

While on tour, Young sang in her husband’s oratorio Jefte in Florence and gave concerts before Marie Antoinette and her sister Maria Carolina of Austria, the de facto Queen of Naples.

Robert M. Cundick

Cundick has written many vocal works, such as the cantata The Song of Nephi, as well as The Redeemer (widely viewed has his most significant work), an oratorio with the text selected by Brigham Young University professor Ralph Woodward.

Samuel Thomas Champnes

), and Handel had apparently written several arias for the part of the young Benjamin in his oratorio Joseph and his Brethren for Champness in 1744, and he may well have sung in the choruses of Messiah as a boy.

San Lazzaro dei Mendicanti, Venice

For this church, the composer Simon Mayr wrote the oratorio Sisara (based on story of Sisera).

Sheet music

A vocal score (or, more properly, piano-vocal score) is a reduction of the full score of a vocal work (e.g., opera, musical, oratorio, cantata, etc.) to show the vocal parts (solo and choral) on their staves and the orchestral parts in a piano reduction (usually for two hands) underneath the vocal parts; the purely orchestral sections of the score are also reduced for piano.

Stepan Degtyarev

His oratorio Minin and Pozharsky - or the Liberation of Moscow (1811) concerned the 1612 liberation of Moscow from Polish occupation during the Time of Troubles interregnum by the Second Zemschina Army led by Kuzma Minin-Sukhoruk, a fishmonger, and Prince Dmitry Pozharsky.

The Young Messiah

The Young Messiah, is a musical production of a modern adaptation of George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah, It was arranged by Tom Parker, in 1982, and featured vocals by Labi Siffre, Madeline Bell and Vicki Brown.

Tobin Stokes

Stokes has been composer in residence at the biannual International Choral Kathaumixw Festival in Powell River, British Columbia, B.C. since 1994, creating large oratorio works often with First Nations themes, stories, elders, dancers, and soloists, performed with massed choirs and orchestra.

U.S.O. Calcio

Unione Sportiva Oratorio Calcio was an Italian association football club representing the Lombardian towns of Calcio, Lombardy.

Vincent Novello

Four of his daughters (of whom the eldest, Mary (1809–1898), married Charles Cowden Clarke) were gifted singers; but the most famous was Clara Novello (1818–1908), whose beautiful high soprano and pure style made her one of the greatest vocalists, in opera as well as in oratorio and on the concert stage, from 1833 onwards.

Voices of Light

When the Criterion Collection released the film on DVD, they included as an audio option a specially edited performance - using the 1995 recording - of the oratorio as a soundtrack accompanying the film.

William Crotch

His composition The Captivity of Judah was played at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, on 4 June 1789; his most successful composition in adulthood was the oratorio Palestine (1812).

Yannis Markopoulos

There followed Re-Naissance: Crete between Venice and Constantinople, a musical journey in four units that strikes a balance between the opera form and that of the oratorio, and the opera Erotokritos and Areti.


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