Word: aeterna
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...Called Aeterna Dei Sapientia (The Eternal Wisdom of God), from its opening words, the new encyclical commemorates the 15th centenary of Pope St. Leo I, the strong-minded Bishop of Rome from 440 to 461 who dissuaded Attila the Hun from sacking the city in 452, and asserted papal supremacy and discipline over bishops of both Christian East and West. In his new appeal for Christian unity, Pope John avoids mention of Communism by name, but notes that "the Catholic Church finds herself in the same sorrowful position as in the 5th century.'' Because of the threat...
...other parts. Chorus, orchestra and soloists blended easily, the trumpets and horns penetrating the luminous tone of the chorus but never over-powering it. The chorus's enunciation was perfect throughout. As in the Faure, here there was no schmalz, and Richard Burgin's violin solo in the Aeterna Fac was even perhaps too clipped...
...year-old Orchestra of America, under Conductor Richard Korn at Carnegie Hall, presented a program of the kind of music it was founded to perform-little-known works by American composers. John Knowles Paine's Overture to "As You Like It" and Howard Hanson's Lux Aeterna proved merely to be pleasantly melodic, soundly constructed works with undistinguished profiles. Leon Kirchner's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra belonged to the crash-bang-and-meander school of modernism, with the violins chasing random single notes in sequence while the cello stuttered insistently, as if trying to interrupt...
Cemetery, Nuremberg, last week, by Common Councilman Herr Doktor Wagner. Drawing a deep breath, he declared: "Proudly Nuremberg calls him Son and Master in the same breath! Today we place a wreath upon this silent hill. Ach! Vita brevis, ars aeterna [Oh, Life is short (but), Art eternal...