Word: allegros
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stephen Addiss '57 contributed an optimistic little Allegro for Woodwind Quartet (1957). Based on a Brahmsian "ladder motive," it proved attractive enough, though rather monochromatic and pallid in effect...
...Symphony. Faster movements, such as the final section of Tschaikowsky's 4th Symphony, generally fared better. Here, even though some of the performers were out of tune and others came in at the wrong instant, most of the faults were lost in the onward rush of sound, allegro con fuoco, and the resulting music was not at all unsatisfactory...
...Differences. Like most other scholars, Allegro identifies the Qumran sect with the Essenes, who almost surely had a monastery near the Dead Sea at the same point as the Qumran ruins. The Essenes, says Allegro, had a kind of "Third Order" of laymen living according to a modified rule in the towns and villages of Palestine, and "it seems reasonable to assume that Jesus was acquainted with such people." He adds: "It is possible that the 'great company of priests' who were 'obedient to the faith,' mentioned in Acts 6:7, included at least part...
...Allegro suggests, their religion was vastly different from Pauline Christianity, which Allegro seems to consider a Greco-Roman corruption of this early faith-and possibly a corruption of Jesus' own faith. Asks Allegro: "Did Jesus himself go all the way of the New Testament? Did [He] really believe He was God in the flesh?" The Qumran community, writes Allegro, would have abhorred the concept of a God-man (as do the Jews and Moslems today), and they would not have thought of admitting Gentiles to salvation. But the Pauline emphasis on the resurrection was "an even greater difference...
...Real Testimony. Author Caster's lucid and factual introduction to the book takes issue with the contention of Allegro and others that the so-called Teacher of Righteousness was a single historical personage, martyred by "the Wicked Priest," and whose resurrection was awaited. The title, which Gaster prefers to translate "True exponent of the Law," refers, he says, to "a continuing office rather than a particular individual, and . . . the various allusions to him are not in fact to one and the same person." He believes that various documents probably refer to different teachers at different times...