The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-02
SPLENDID GROUP
OF SINGERS TO
Give PROGRAM
School Teachers viii Pre-
Sent Interesting
Group.

n are a body of six musicians
who have for many years cultivated
the art of ensemble singing. In
particular they have made a close
study of the madrigalists OF all
countries and it is in the polyphonic
music of the sixteenth century that
their greatest successes have been
attained. Nearly all of their pro-
grams are rendered entirely in
English, devoted to the best ex-
ampleS of the great Elizabethan
school of choral music
This Choir perfect" to paraphrase
a New York critic, has delighted
audiences all over the world, and in
America in particular they have
scored phenomenal success. Com
ing to this country in the fall of
1925 for g. few performances, they
returned last season to fill nearly
one hundred engagements, including
six sold- out recitals at Town Hall,
New York City, where they have
completely won the metropolitan
press and public. This season they
have another country-wi tour,
including their first visit to the
Pacific coast.
1t is easy to account for the out
standing record of this matchless
ensemble; every one who hearS
them, musician and layman, stu
dent and teacher, fapper and ath-
Iete, youth and veteran, alike is
charmed, fascinated and delighted
with the programs rendered by the
English Singers, sung in the match
less diction of British born, with
every word ineligible, full of
humor, pathos and charm.
The English Singers bring a new
note of informality to the concert
hall, adopting, as they do, the I'M
familiar habit of singing seated at
ease around a table, copying the
manner of those for whom the
madrigals were written $50 years
ago. The famous authority, DR..
Percy Buck, has written of the Eng
lish Singers that their singing is
mot only the best I ever heard; it
is quite truly better than any ever
expected to hear in my life"
The question arises after hearing
the English Singers, why don't we
have this sort of thing oftener?"
The answer is that even to persons
of high musical sensibility such as
compose this group, years of prepa-
ration are required; self must be
forgotten, and the thought of each
singer concentrated on the music
alone. So much for the technique.
There remains another important
reason. Only recently, through the
monumental scholarship of DR.. Ed
mund H. Fellowes, canon of Wind
Sor castle and a world authority on
Tudor music, has the rich treasure
of song rendered by the English
Singers been available. DR.. Fellows
has now completed his research,
with the result that some eight
hundred of these beautiful songs
have been added to the literature.
The English Singers will be pre-
sented at the new Caleb Mills Hall
at Shortridge on Friday night under
the direction of the Federation OF
indianapolis Public School Teach
ers.
The following program will be
given:
Motets--
Praise Our Lord" william Byrd -,
ave verum' ). William Byrd Ii54S-iS2S5j
HoSanna to the Son of David -
......... Thomas Weelkes 1575-1623)
MaadaEy I,u Svs and =, 2 Pa Rslle let :.
80 Softly Singing Lutte" -. .4's OO''
....... Francis Pilkington (l562-i6ss)
Tho AmarylliS Dance in Green.
Folk Songs--Arranged by r. Vaughn
Williams 1872l-
The Dark-Eved Sailor"
The Turtle Dove"
''Wassail Song
Italian Street Cries
-. :. :. jacques du Pont &C. isoo)
.. Adriano Ba;nichieri. jic. i5s5--i6ap
NV ,. o:.: jacques du Pont &c. i6oo,
Duets and Trio
! IT Spy Celia. Observation-Disclosures.
John, Come kiss Me now. 80. 100 -O' :.
...... (Sixteenth century, Arr. by
-. z. W; Nayior 1887.
..:..:...... Henry Purcell ii658-i695)
Madrigals, Canzonet and Ballet
What Saith Ny Dainty Darling.
Thomas Morley (155a-1603)
.......,. Orlando Gibbons (l583-1625)
Il Go Before. Ny Darling" ....... =
| my Phyllis Bids Me Pack Aw iST' .0'''
Thomas Weelkes G5T5-1 Ho3N