Review
Hear Hear
Richard Buell
Globe Correspondent
Saturday night at the First Congregational Church the Spectrum Singers under John W. Ehrlich brought their typical enthusiasm and feeling for expressive nuance to a program of Mozart's Salzburg church music (K 260, 276, 109, 193, 321), this in a benefit for the Hospice of Cambridge. As all those Koechels indicate, this is early Mozart, but Ehrlich hears in it something more than professionalism or the whipped-cream-in-stone qualities of Baroque architecture. With the astonishingly emotional "Agnus Dei" of K 109 one found himself believing with him.
A strikingly positive feature of the event, one felt, was that everybody there -- the able soloists (Luellen Best, Gloria Raymond, Rockland Osgood, Mark-Andrew Cleveland), the chorus, the trim little orchestra, and not least the audience -- wanted to be there.
This story ran on page F6 of the Boston Globe on 06/04/97.
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