Word: cecilia
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...good deal more could have been done in the way of such niceties as plot and character, but the atmosphere can hardly be faulted. That is not surprising, considering that Robert Stone Pryor is a pseudonym for Cecilia Holland, at 26 the well-known author of four well-wrought and successful works of romantic historical fiction: The Firedrake, 1966; Rakóssy, 1967; The Kings in Winter, 1968; Until the Sun Fails, 1969; and most recently Antichrist, released this spring at almost the same time as Cold Iron. A former graduate student in medieval history at Columbia and a onetime...
WHILE MOST OF YOU were perishing in the diabolical black fire of this neo-Dadaist life in America, agonizing over Harvard's impending football doom like a particle in the livid-frigid Flux, I decided to drop in on the Cecilia Society and the Glee Club concerts at the still point of the burning world. "Song is the key," I reasoned, "for only the rapture of song links such disparate spirits as Arjuna, Chemosh, Mailer, Nixon, Tristan, Bruckner, and the confluence of latent universal souls thrashing about in the torpid light of Art. Let us ublimate the manifold contradictions...
...OTHER TWO WORKS. Britten's Hymn to St. Cecilia, and Dello Joio's To St. Cecilia, were surpassingly unremarkable. The only marginally interesting section of the Britten piece, which uses a problemmatical Auden text, was a Queen Mab Scherzo passage affording relief from the "flickering flames" of "Blonde Aphrodite." The unidentified soprano soloist thrilled us with another seismic performance whose beauty might be compared to an autumnal wheat field methodically bending to the breeze. Mr. Dello Joio, whose star has been rising ever since his epochal Air Power brought home the Caligulan glory of the air force to the musically...
...began studying with his piano-teacher parents when he was five, gave his first recital at seven. After his parents resettled in Tel Aviv, he studied in Europe, becoming at 13 the youngest student ever to win a master's degree at Rome's Academy of Santa Cecilia. Besides taking up conducting, he learned the violin to see music from still another angle, and he did some composing to give his playing "a quality of understanding...
Their father, Wilhelm Marx, a distant relative of Karl, emigrated in 1895 from Germany and established a large tannery in Brazil. Mother Cecilia Burle Marx was a cultivated Brazilian who made the family home in Rio de Janeiro a citadel of culture where Enrico Caruso came to call. It was an ideal climate for budding genius, and three sons emerged as the most amazing and talented brother act in Brazil...