Horn, Stacy.
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2013.
Added to CLICnet on 05/08/2015

Check CLICnet for availability
Notes:

• As Horn relates her funny and profound experiences as a choir member [of the Choral Society of Grace Church in New York], she treats us to an eclectic history of group singing and the music that moves us–whether we’re hearing it for the first time or the hundredth–, the dramatic stories of conductors and composers, and discoveries from the new science of singing, including the remarkable physical benefits of song –Amazon.com.
• Includes bibliographical references.
• A German requiem — Recitative: the Orpheus Glee Club — The Chichester Psalms — Recitative: the Rubinstein Club — Messiah — Toward the unknown region — Recitative: the People’s Choral Union — Mass No. 11 in D minor, aka Missa in Angustiis — Ave Maria — Recitative: the Chatham Street Chapel riot — Missa simile est regnum coelorum — The last invocation and memoranda — Recitative: Francis Boott and R. Nathaniel Dett — O magnum mysterium — Ye shall have a song and Water night and Fate and faith songs.

Subjects:

• Choral Society (New York, N.Y.)
• Choral singing — New York (State) — New York.
• Horn, Stacy.

Requested by Heiderscheit, A