Colin McEnroe Show: Symphonies and Sambas
It takes more than 300 performers to realize Britten’s War Requiem ...
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Colin McEnroe Show 04-28-10
Today we're talking about two kind of music that could not be more different.
You'd naturally associate Trinity College with something like the War Requiem, Benjamin Britten's massive piece for orchestra and voice. We'll talk about the War Requiem today, but Trinity College is bringing us another kind of music - samba. The College actually offers the silken, rhythmic Brazilian music form, as a course of study.
I've been listening to Brazilian music all my adult life, but I'm not sure I could explain what makes a samba and samba ... as opposed to a bossa nova or a mambo.
As for the War Requiem, we just felt we couldn't let the staging of something this massive happen without taking a look inside the workings of it. Britten's piece, to be performed this Sunday at St. Joseph Cathedral, requires more than 300 performers. And that means knitting together a lot of groups.
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