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...final work was Ode to the Virginian Voyage, written a year ago by Randall Thompson '20 for the Virginia 350th Anniversary Commission. This big piece is in the tradition of the great Baroque "occasional" odes; in fact it is about two-thirds Handel and one-third Thompson. The third of the seven movements is a first cousin to the "Londonderry Air," and the fourth is based on the hymn "O God Our Help In Ages Past." There are fanfares and a full-blown fugue and finale. This is all effective writing, and the chorus produced some glorious sounds...
Professor Thompson, chairman of the University Music Department, composed this work for the 1957 Jamestown Festival commemorating the 350th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, Virginia...
Hospitality was the word for Old Virginia, and in honor of this year's celebration of the 350th anniversary of the settlement of Jamestown, the Old Dominion decided to put out the welcome mat for Old Virginians living outside the state. Down the lists of distinguished ex-Virginians went the official hosts; out to some 600 notables went engraved invitations to a reception May 17, arranged by the State Chamber of Commerce...
...Dyck was one of the best art students that ever lived, and the special pet of Antwerp's great painter Peter Paul Rubens. In Antwerp's Koninklijk Museum last week, painters and art lovers were learning from Student Van Dyck. The exhibition, in celebration of the 350th anniversary of his birth, contained 134 paintings, sketches and etchings, showed both the strengths and weaknesses of imitative, academic genius...
...regiomontanos (literally, those of the mountain region), as other Mexicans call them, don't care. In fact, they like it. Last week, in celebrating the 350th anniversary of the founding of the Metropolitan City of Our Lady of Monterrey, they staged a contest for the best Monterrey jokes. Too well-known to compete: the story of the Monterrey bridegroom who honeymooned alone in Mexico City because the bride had already seen the place...