Word: belshazzar
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...year-old Benjamin Britten, he has turned out some pieces (e.g., his Symphony and Viola Concerto) that are considered better than any of their more celebrated works. In the U.S. he is known for Façade, an impudent accompaniment for Edith Sitwell's eccentric verses; Belshazzar's Feast, a big dramatic choral work; and Orb and Sceptre, a grandiose march commissioned for the coronation. Visiting the U.S. with his Argentine born wife, he will conduct these three works in the Hollywood Bowl this week...
Walton leaped to fame in 1926 with Facade. His Belshazzar was, to London Sunday Times Critic Ernest Newman, "bursting with a very fury of exultation." Walton wrote a Violin Concerto for his friend Jascha Heifetz, but was driving an ambulance in London during the war when the work was premiered and never heard it until it was recorded...
Eleven months Billy labors; the twelfth he rests with his wife, three daughters and baby boy, and a Great Pyrenees dog named Belshazzar. The Graham family lives in a six-room, grey stone house in Montreal, N.C. with picture windows, rhododendrons, a hammock by a mountain stream, a TV set, and a log fence to keep out nosy tourists. But the Rev. William Franklin Graham is at his happiest when he is at his busiest and loneliest: on the platform in a vast amphitheater, or drawling into a mike the Tarheel tag line to his ABC broadcast, "May the Lord...
Back in the 70th century, when the great Castilian dramatist CalderÓon de la Barca wrote the most sumptuous of all the autos sacramentales (Belshazzar's Feast, The Divine Orpheus), these religious dramatizations, similar to the earlier English mystery plays, reached their peak popularity. After that, their appeal dwindled and they all but disappeared from the holy-days celebrations outside the churches of the Spanish-speaking world. But in remote Oruro, 12,000 ft. up in the Bolivian Andes, the auto still flourishes with strong Indian overtones, and last week, as usual at carnival time, the show...
...trapped in interior landscape." He went back and studied anatomy. "Then I came to what I'm doing now . . . I want these heads to be as brilliant as neon lights, to be in the air between you and the black background, like the handwriting at Belshazzar's feast . But these heads are shoots only. What the flower is going to be I'm as much surprised...