Word: benjamin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over the years, the Post had proved so durable that it seemed death might never come. Oldtime editors rather liked the notion that the magazine was the direct descendant of a publication founded by Benjamin Franklin, even though they knew the claim was flawed.* Irreverently they nicknamed a Franklin bust in the editorial offices "Benny the Bum." Much more real were the roles of Cyrus H. K. Curtis, a self-made promotional genius from Maine, who bought the dying little paper in 1897 ($100 cash, $900 later), and Curtis' editor for 38 years, George Lorimer...
This week West Berlin's Singakade-mie performs the Christmas oratorio with members of the Radio Symphony Orchestra. In London, Composer Benjamin Britten conducts three cantatas for the BBC from St. Andrew's Church in Holborn. In Manhattan, Violinist and Conductor Alexander Schneider completes a two-concert series of cantatas and concertos at Carnegie Hall. And in New York, as in other major capitals, the coming weeks will see a performance of Bach's undoubted masterpiece, the B-Minor Mass-a work that he began as a tribute to the Catholic King of Poland, but which...
BILLY BUDD (London: 3 LPs). Benjamin Britten's music is filled with a mystic intensity that illuminates rather than beclouds the libretto, which was beautifully crafted by E. M. Forster and Eric Crozier from Melville's tale of an innocent's execution. The album has been meticulously produced with a cast that includes Peter Glossop as Billy and Peter Pears as Captain Vere: Britten himself conducts...
...role of history and sociology in the development of Christianity and that he spoke a Biblicist language to modern men crying for a fresher mode of revelation. Yet even his critics had to acknowledge that theology could never be the same again. "He is a mountain," admitted Dr. Benjamin Reist of San Francisco Seminary. "To get beyond him you have to climb over...
...Benjamin Braddock, I have only one word...