The Choral Arts Society inaugurated its 50th-anniversary season Sunday afternoon at the Kennedy Center with a performance of Bach’s mighty Mass in B Minor, conducted by artistic director Scott Tucker. It was the fifth time since 1971 that the group has performed the work in Washington and offered further evidence that this Bach masterpiece is a crowning achievement of Western civilization.
Despite its considerable heft of some 170 voices, the Choral Arts chorus is a remarkably agile ensemble, boasting a wide dynamic range, sure intonation and clear enunciation. Its rhythmic precision and ... continue reading
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