oratorio

How To Use oratorio In A Sentence

• Mr. Tritle's wish-list for future projects includes great Romantic canvases like César Franck's "Les Béatitudes" and Charles Gounod's epic oratorio "Mors et Vita," as well as 20th-century landmarks like the Britten "War Requiem" and Janáček's Glagolitic Mass. The Master of Many Choruses
• The bishop of London apparently agreed and prohibited the oratorio from being performed. Christianity Today
• It will explore the excitements of Paris between the wars, through opera, ballet, concerts, oratorio, film and visual arts, and a specially commissioned book.
• This work due to its setting to music by Mikis Theodorakis as an oratorio, is a revered anthem whose verse is sung by all Greeks for all injustice, resistance and for its sheer beauty and musicality of form. Odysseas elytis | calendar of an invisible april « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
• Other dramatic, but generally unstaged genres were the cantata and serenata, and the sacred equivalent of opera, oratorio, given in Lent when theatres were closed.
• In her youth Queen Victoria listened with rapture to the impressive and glorious music of the great oratorios rendered in the Minster.
• He also performed numerous songs, oratorios and cantatas.
• He brought stylish performance practice to the music of the baroque and classical periods, especially Handel oratorio and Mozart opera.
• Zimmermann even invented a new name for the genre, which he called a lingual, a piece that blends elements of the cantata, oratorio, radio play, journalism, and feature film.
• He describes his play as an oratorio in 11 cantos, in reference to Dante's Divine Comedy and its depiction of hell.