Word: assisi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Written on commission from the San Francisco Symphony, which is celebrating its 50th season. Composer Harris' new work is titled San Francisco Symphony. But it is actually intended as a musical evocation of the life of St. Francis of Assisi. Harris began work, he says, when he was flying across the country at 33,000 ft.-hence the music's "quality of aspiration." Often rising at 3 a.m. and working through until midnight, Harris finished his 22-minute symphony in one month. As played last week, it had all the ardor, the sinewy strength, the luminosity and clarity...
...cycle of 14 one-act jMays divided into two groups, "The Seven Ages of Man" and "The Seven Deadly Sins." The off-Broadway debut of three of the playlets, two from the Man series (Infancy, Childhood) and one from the Sins series about lust (Someone from Assisi) is not auspicious...
Someone from Assisi confronts St. Francis with a woman he had known carnally in his prevocational days. She is now as whirling mad as he is gently pious. The whole episode has the air of bogus revelation, as if it had been excerpted from a TV show called "Francis-This is Your Life...
...double cycle of 14 one-act plays-Author Thornton (Our Town) Wilder, 64, delivered a progress report. The new plays, he said, dealt only in universals-"I am not interested in such ephemeral subjects as the adulteries of dentists"-and three of them, entitled Infancy, Childhood and Someone from Assisi, would open off Broadway next month. As for the remaining eleven, said Wilder, "some are on the stove, some are in the oven, and some are in the wastebasket." When all 14 were finally fully baked, then what? "After I complete these plays," declared the three-time Pulitzer prizewinner...
...Money is a danger," said St. Francis of Assisi. The first Franciscans embraced Holy Poverty by begging for food and sleeping in stables. Their modern descendants handle filthy lucre as little as possible, but this is obviously difficult when traveling in an age of gas stations motels and Howard Johnsons. Last week at a Franciscan financial conference at St. Francis College, Loretto, Pa., U.S Franciscans heard of a happy compromise used by their Canadian brethren. Surprisingly, it is the same solution used by man non-Franciscans not sworn to poverty but headed for it. The device: credit cards...