Northwest Chamber Chorus - Narrative History written... -
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Published on: 4/1/1998
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Frank Corrado, an accomplished actor, writing as music critic from the Seattle Weekly, described incisively how this musicianship showed itself in the chorus's rendering of the single word "Barabbas!"to answer Pilate's question, should Barabbas or Jesus be set free?"The attack on the word's first syllable," Corrado wrote, was made, as it had to be, "with razor-sharp precision at a tremendous dynamic level, and then followed by two similarly perfect, equally weighted, attacks on the remaining syllables."A few seconds, and it was over, but the effect was hair-raising.It left him, he said, "moved to tears."
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Three years later Joan Conlon designed a series of familiar carols to be woven into Frank Corrado's narration of Dylan Thomas's "A Child's Christmas in Wales."