Word: albans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Release came in a conclusion easier to reconcile with the radical middle-aged Schonberg. He wrote his last solo for a speaker, gave him specific notes to hit as he recited about the peaceful things in nature. Philadelphians instantly recognized this so-called sprechstimme as the device which Composer Alban Berg, a Schoönberg pupil, used with the same wailing effect in Wozzeck (TIME, March 16, 1931). Piccolos had a prominent part in this last orchestration, done ten years after the first. The strings had difficult chromatics to flurry through. But it never got noisy or jarring, never lost...
...many automobiles. He has also famed radio Station HVJ, a telephoto service, a new elevator to replace the Vatican's old hydraulic lift. Cows used to browse in the Vatican gardens, but these along with the Vatican horses are to be sent out to Castel Gandolfo in the Alban hills. Cosy, chummy modernity is the note; but the Swiss Guards still parade in the outfits Michelangelo designed-for them...
With meticulous care the archeologist's pick & shovel gang cleared the entrance to another old tomb. Here, atop Monte Alban which overhangs the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca, might be some treasure which the Spanish Conquistadores had missed. Monte Alban had been a fortress of the anciently rich and powerful Mixtecs, or Cloud People. Within the walls they had built their temples and palaces. Here too were tombs of the Caciques, feudal nobles. The hilltop now is all tumbled debris. Professor Alfonso Caso, archeologist of the National Museum of Mexico, has had a gang clearing buried walls, sifting dirt...
Federal troops last week protected Monte Alban from marauders. That, however, did not deter the treasure hunters. There are tunnels through the territory which the Cloud People once ruled. The tunnels, some of them 30 miles long, connected old cities, many of them vanished. A few of the tunnels
...possibilities of opera in Manhattan's Radio City. Latest talk has been that the Metropolitan has abandoned all idea of becoming a subsidiary of the Rockefeller venture, that the Philadelphia Grand Opera would be invited in on the strength of the enterprise shown in its presentations of Alban Berg's Wozzeck and Richard Strauss's Elektra...