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Article: Be ready for heavenly sounds with visit by Tallis Scholars
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- The Gazette
- Article date:
- December 5, 1997
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It's that sound - soaring upward, with an unearthly lightness
that's somehow combined with a sense of supreme confidence. When
describing the Tallis Scholars, who perform next Thursday at Colorado
College's Shove Chapel, it's hard not to use the word "angelic."
The 10-member English group, one of the world's premier
interpreters of Renaissance a capella music, is making its first
visit to Colorado Springs as part of an annual tour of the United
States that includes concerts in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia.
Director Peter Phillips becomes ecstatic when talking about the
group's "unearthly, transporting sound, the internal warmth radiating
from the tenor part, and then the lovely, ...