TWO AUDIO PIECES Musica Sacra presents two hours of sacred choral music every Sunday night from 8 1- PM on ÐÇ¿ÕÎÞÏÞ´«Ã½ 89-7 FM. See www.wosu.org/musica-sacra The program begins this Sunday, October 4th. Here's a bit of our first piece, Heinrich Schuetz's motet for double chorus with echo, Jauchzet dem Herren. Richard Westenburg conducts Musica Sacra. I stole the name. October highlights include selections from Roberto Sierra's terrific new Missa pro Latina, Barber's setting of the Agnus dei, Haydn's Te Deum, J.S. Bach's Mass in A, BWV 234 and a new recording of the Brahms Requiem with James Levine conducting the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and the Boston Symphony. Musica Sacra, Sundays at 8 PM on ÐÇ¿ÕÎÞÏÞ´«Ã½ 89-7 FM. Here's another selection from this Sunday's inaugural program, the finale of Handel's Samson. Maurice Abravanel conducts the Utah Symphony Orchestra and Chorus I'm starting to look like that portrait of Handel....
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