He noted the high level of discipline necessary to master choral programs and added that a vast majority of the choir students had been accepted to college over the years.
Although, in the finale of the Ninth Symphony and the Missa Solemnis, Beethoven shows himself a master of choral effects, the solo human voice gave him difficulty to the end.
The Czech composer Josef Förster achieved widespread recognition in his own country as a master of choral style, and a telling example of this may be heard in the cantata Mortuis fratribus, written as a kind of requiem after the end of World War I.
As well as leading the violas, Monteux was assistant conductor, taking charge of early rehearsals and acting as chorus master for choral works.
On Sunday, Ligeti's score was part of the master chorale's refreshingly rich and varied Walt Disney Concert Hall program, which offered a baker's dozen of a cappella choral works and called upon three conductors to lead them.
A choral as well as orchestral master, Mr. Herreweghe has made a particular specialty of Bach amid a repertory that ranges from Lassus to Schoenberg.
Pindar, Greek Pindaros, Latin Pindarus (born probably 518 bc, Cynoscephalae, Boeotia, Greece died after 446, probably c. 438, Argos) the greatest lyric poet of ancient Greece and the master of epinicia, choral odes celebrating victories achieved in the Pythian, Olympic, Isthmian, and Nemean games.
518 BCE? Cynoscephalae, ancient Greece 446 Árgos, ancient Greece Pindar, Greek Pindaros, Latin Pindarus (born probably 518 bc, Cynoscephalae, Boeotia, Greece died after 446, probably c. 438, Argos) the greatest lyric poet of ancient Greece and the master of epinicia, choral odes celebrating victories achieved in the Pythian, Olympic, Isthmian, and Nemean games.
In contemporary America, most religious music — competent, predictable — is produced by the masters of the "choral market".
