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One can't help but feel rather suspicious of a concert program that features solely foreign composers. For one, audiences have a tendency to feel somehow cheated by music that is sung in a foreign language, as if music sung in a English is more immediately profound due to the inability to comprehend the text. Likewise it is natural for critics to feel disdainful of performers for their blatant avoidance of the difficulties of an unfamiliar language.
Such attitudes, while valid, lose all relevance when contemplating the program the Florida International University School of Music presented on Thursday, February 15, 2007 in Wertheim Performing Arts Center, Concert Hall. It is to the great credit of Sam Spears, the conductor of the University Chorale, and John Augenblick, conductor of the Concert Choir, that the hour and a half concert presented music which was deeply moving of classic foreign music. Because foreign vocal works are by nature generally less familiar than their......

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