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Choral Society Of The Palm Beaches Happenings

Puccini’s Messa di Gloria by A Holiday to Remember, arranged by Mac Huff, featuring The Lubben Brothers
familiar holiday songs White Christmas, Feliz Navidad, have performed at
Giacomo Puccini, Happy Hanukkah, Do You Hear What I Hear and others. venues such as the
who lived from 1858 It was performed with a 60-member choir with orchestral Meyer Amphitheater, The
to 1924 wrote the ensemble, with the Lubben Brothers as special guests. South Florida Fair, the
Messa di Gloria at This program was performed Saturday, Dec. 14, and Flagler Museum, The
the age of 18. The Sunday, Dec. 15, 2019 at 7:30 and 4 p.m., respectively at Kravis Center, and the
score was written to the Osher Lifelong Learning Auditorium, Florida Atlantic Norton Museum of Art.
serve as Puccini’s University, Jupiter Campus, 5353 Parkside Drive, Jupiter, Fla. As the on-stage band,
graduation thesis the brothers performed
from the Institute Musical of Lucca, Italy. It had its first We’re Proud To Welcome in Dramawork’s award-
performance in Lucca on July 12, 1880. Puccini never winning production of Woody Guthrie’s American Song in
published the full manuscript of the Messa although it was Back ... The Lubben Brothers the summer of 2018. They have also performed as actor/
well received at the time. For his eagerness to master other musicians in the world premiere of their original musical,
forms of music, he laid aside this mass to begin work on the The brothers performed with The Choral Society in our The Luck of Roaring Camp, which was produced by Palm
major operatic works for which he is so famous for today. last holiday concert and were a big hit. Beach Atlantic University in October 2018. Music from their
This mass might very well have remained buried and About The Lubben Brothers two albums has aired on radio stations in Iowa, Minnesota,
forgotten had it not been for the efforts of an American The Lubben Brothers is an acoustic group made up of and Florida, including exclusive interviews on NPR’s Folk
priest, Father Dante del Fierentino, who in 1951 went triplet brothers, Michael, Tom, and Joshua. Their younger and Acoustic Music (WLRN 91.3, Miami), Boomer Times
to Lucca to gather materials for his book on the life of brother, Isaac (16), joins them from the suburbs of Chicago Radio (95.3), WPTV, and more. Their group has also been
Puccini. In the course of his research he discovered this whenever possible. The brothers specialize in tight vocal featured in the Sun Sentinel, the Orlando Sentinel, the Palm
aged manuscript and brought it back to the United States. harmonies, as well as a unique blend of folk instruments Beach Post, Palm Beach Daily News, North Palm Beach
The work was first performed in Chicago on July 12, including banjo, mandolin, accordion, tin whistle, Life, Boca Magazine, and Palm Beach Illustrated. They are
1952 and later in Naples, Italy on December 12, 1952. hammered dulcimer, and fiddle. Classically trained at a now in the process of releasing original singles, and just
Both performances were received with great enthusiasm. young age, their modern songwriting style incorporates celebrated the release of Smile Again July 1, and Lifeboat,
It is interesting to note that though some 72 years separated folk roots with complex pop ideas. Sept. 6, 2019.
these events and the original performance in Lucca, critical
appraisals of the composition were extremely similar. It is
also interesting that Puccini re-used some of the Messa di
Gloria themes in other works, such as the Agnus Dei in his
opera Manon Lescaut and the Kyrie in Edgar.
Music critics, past and present, have reserved the same
words of praise for Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, dramatically
illustrating the timeless and permanently brilliant character
of the composition. It is written in musical history as a
lasting monument to the glory of God.

Voices In Celebration:
A Holiday To Remember

This was a rich musical voyage across America and
beyond shared in the joyful traditions expressed through
holiday song. The program included selections from
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