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...choristers from the New York Schola Cantorum and four expert soloists-Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg, Contralto Sigrid Onegin, Tenor Paul Althouse, Basso Ezio Pinza. Toscanini sang croakingly along with them but there were no complaints. The little Italian had never seemed so inspired as in the exalted Gloria, the prayerful Agnus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Solemn Mass | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

...Host there may be a full-voiced Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus Dominus Deus Sabaoth- "Holy, holy, holy Lord God of hosts," recalling Christ's triumphant entry into Jerusalem. And at the great moment of communion with the Body and Blood of Christ, the congregation may sing in supplication, Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis: "Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Singing at Mass | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

...Agnus is Latin for lamb, a beast revered because St. John called Jesus the "Lamb of God.'' Agues the name (Inez is the same name) derives from Greek (h)agne, which means chaste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: St. Agnes' Lambs | 2/2/1931 | See Source »

...Kyrie Eleison, Greek words which mean "Lord have mercy upon us." The conventional divisions follow: the Gloria (Gloria in excelsis Deo, "Glory be to God on high"), the Credo (Credo in unum Deum, "I believe in one God"), the Sanctus (Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus, "Holy, holy, holy") and the Agnus Dei which begins "O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world," and ends "Grant us thy Peace." Choruses, solos, duets ? Bach wrote with a prodigal hand. Deeply pleading is his opening Kyrie, but for many there is in all music no passage more moving than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bach's Bethlehem | 5/26/1930 | See Source »

...organ recital in Appleton Chapel this morning from 9 to 9.15 o'clock, the following program will be rendered: A minor fugue J. S. Bach Agnus Del J. S. Bach

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Organ Recital Program | 6/6/1928 | See Source »

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