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Article: Master, Salisbury Singers lend vigor to modern choral works.(ENTERTAINMENT)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
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- June 11, 2007
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Byline: John Zeugner
COLUMN: MUSIC REVIEW
The work of two contemporary American composers, Paul Basler and Gwyneth Walker, was featured in Saturday night's joint concert by the Master Singers of Worcester and the Salisbury Singers at St. Paul Cathedral.
The blended choruses, 110 strong across the full width of St. Paul's sanctuary, provided gorgeously rendered evidence of the beauty, charm and power of recent choral composition.
The program opened with Basler's "Missa Kenya," a Latin Mass that reflected Basler's Fulbright experiences in Nairobi, as well as his own strengths as a French horn specialist (more than 100 horn compositions ...