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...Very Surprising." Monsignor Cippico's exposure, the only major Vatican scandal since 1915,* began last August. Pope Pius was at his summer retreat of Castel Gandolfo, deep in the Alban Hills. Beneath his long hand on the light walnut desk lay the morning's mail, with all the envelopes personally addressed to the Pope still unopened. Many begging letters Pius XII marked with a gold pencil, so that help should be sent immediately. Then he came to a letter from an industrialist who complained of the excessively high commissions charged by the Vatican for personal loans...
Mozart the Modern. He has written five string quartets, a piano concerto and two symphonies (one of which the Minneapolis Symphony played in 1946). He composes in a freely atonal style, admires the hardy music of Schonberg and Austrian Atonalist Alban Berg. Says he: "After all, Mozart composed 'modern' music when he wrote." When friends ask him why he writes like the new masters, but plays only the music of the old, he says: "I play only music which remains for me problematic-only music that is better than it can be played...
...conducting; Artist Records, 4 sides). This difficult opera, a kind of Nordic and atonal Carmen, was violently criticized at its Berlin premiere in 1925, was the first work of art to be damned as Kulturbolschewismus by the rising Nazis. These excerpts give only a sketchy idea of the late Alban Berg's score. Performance: good...
...Monte Alban. Hero of the occasion: Dr. Alphonso Caso, who was about to retire into politics, perhaps to be Mexico's Minister of Education. Dr. Caso, brother-in-law of mercurial Labor Leader Vicente Lombardo Toledano, symbolized an era coming to a close. Under his direction, the ceremonial center of the Mixtecs and Zapotecs at Monte Alban, near Oaxaca, had been excavated. Digging carefully into the 60 square kilometers of overgrown mounds, Dr. Caso's men unearthed a dazzling complex of subtly designed stone tombs and religious buildings. In many they found golden masks and necklaces, carvings...
Thin, alabaster-pale Father John Baptist Janssens, new General of the Society of Jesus (TIME, Sept. 23), paid a formal call upon his Holy Father at the papal summer residence, Castel Gandolfo, in the Alban hills. Said Pius...