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Article: Salisbury Singers in command.(ENTERTAINMENT)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
- Article date:
- November 12, 2007
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Byline: John Zeugner
COLUMN: MUSIC REVIEW
FITCHBURG - The Salisbury Singers put the martial and memorial capacities of choral music on full display Saturday
night at Christ Church, in a concert called "Songs of War and Peace."
The effort was a craftily assembled collection of music, mostly celebratory, with a tinge of lament acknowledging the region's historical ambiguity about American combat.
The professionalism and command of the Salisbury Singers was evident in their first piece by William Billings - in many ways still the most commanding (and earliest) of all American composers. His popular Revolutionary-era composition ...