The Springfield Symphony Chorus, the University of Massachusetts Chamber Choir and Chorale, and the Springfield evening at Symphony Hall and assured an audience of 1,851 souls that death will, beyond any doubt, be swallowed up in Their work paid off, both in the clarity and intensity of their execution, and in the depth of understanding that word of God, about the comfort available to those who mourn the passing of loved ones, and about the apocalyptic events Brahms' case the last "Posaune," or The Brahms, by virtue of the more personal, intimate nature of its text (selected by the composer in his mother tongue, dead), and the more contained, focused circumstances of the performance, was a far more deeply moving experience.
right and left loges, the choral sound enveloped the listener, reinforcing and naturally amplifying the sound of the orchestra.
success with painstaking work on notes, rhythms, German diction (superb), and meaning.
The choir's enraptured faces, both young and old, said final movement, the choristers' sincere engagement and The putting together fell to Maestro Rhodes, a passionate musician more than equal to the task. Shaping sprawling phrase-groups and tiny dynamic details with equal care, and always attentive to the harmonic, formal, and dramatic goals of Brahms' symphonic thinking, Rhodes forged a coherent, convincing vehicle for the composer's message of hope.
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