re: Our Carnegie Performance: Excerpts from Alex Ross, The New Yorker, May 26, 2014. : Climate Change: The final edition of Spring for Music at Carnegie Hall The other major discovery of Spring for Music this year was R. Nathaniel Detts Biblical oratorio The Ordering of Moses, which arrived courtesy of the Cincinnati Symphony and the Cincinnati May Festival Chorus. His oratorio . . . is a stirring, potent piece, and the skilled amateur singers of the May Festival Chorus, which has been in existence since 1873, made sure that it shook the rafters. [Regarding the end of Sing Ye to Jehovah] Conlon and his Cincinnati forces, augmented by the tenor Rodrick Dixon and the soprano Latonia Moore, conveyed the moment with precision and fervor. But the most winning moment [of Spring for Music 2014] came in the wake of The Ordering of Moses, when, for an encore, the Cincinnati singers and players dared to offer something supremely familiar: the Hallelujah Chorus, which ends the May Festival each spring. Hundreds of visitors from Cincinnati joined in, voicing well-tuned four-part harmony. The border between performers and audience fell away; Carnegie has seldom felt so alive.
Posted on: Mon, 19 May 2014 20:53:48 +0000
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