Thursday, March 17, 2011

Mass popularity


A new recording of the long-lost "Missa sopra Ecco sì beato giorno" by the 16th-centrury Italian composer Alessandro Striggio has made an unlikely debut at No. 68 on the British pop charts, The Independent's Rob Sharp reports:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/classical/news/lost-choral-masterpiece-finally-finds-a-home-in-the-pop-charts-2244098.html


As Dave Barry might say, Striggio would be a good name for a band.