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MOZART: MASS IN C MINOR (Angel). Written for his bride, who sang the coloratura soprano role in its first performance, this was Mozart's last Mass before the Requiem. Wolfgang Gönnenwein conducts the South German Madrigal Choir and Southwest German Chamber Orchestra in this spacious performance, with Edith Mathis exquisitely singing the eight-minute bel canto solo, Et Incarnatus...
Last week the reservation came under fire from another organization-and a surprising one at that: the normally conservative U.S. Chamber of Commerce. By a vote of 174 to 82, the Chamber, at a meeting in Washington, called for repeal of the Connally Reservation. Said the Chamber: "Nations should settle their disputes by peaceful means, depending on law with justice rather than force, including acceptance of the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice without the so-called 'Connally Reservation...
...view of Convention Delegate William A. Haugsted of El Monte, Calif., who led a spirited floor fight against the resolution: "The Chamber is veering away from the principles it has long believed in. The world is not ready for this yet." But Christian Science Monitor Editor in Chief Erwin Canham, who is a past president of the Chamber, expressed the majority's overriding view. American businessmen, he explained, have a greater stake than ever before in world trade, and are increasingly coming around to the idea that "progress in the direction of a world law system is sound...
...shredded by Ives, run through a wringer of dissonance and woven into his complex fabric of rhythms, they were not easily recognized. In the first movement, for example, the doom-laden theme in the basses sounded against a background of Nearer, My God, to Thee, softly played by a chamber ensemble isolated at the rear of the orchestra. Then the violins joined in with The Sweet Bye and Bye, intertwined with clashes of brass and drums and another hymn sung by an 18-voice chorus. The second movement, beginning with a blaring Marching Through Georgia, erupted into a cacophonous frenzy...
...responded with enthusiastic letters. "He was shy, notwithstanding all his arrogance," wrote ex-Editor Mario Missiroli, of the weekly Epoca. Concluded Domenico Bartoli, of Milan's Corriere della Sera: "His intuition in evaluating the weakness of his adversaries was penetrating and exact." Paolo Rossi, vice president of the Chamber of Deputies, went further. "One must admit," said he, "that Mussolini's conqueror's march [on Rome, when he took power from Victor Emmanuel III in 1922], considered as an art work, was particularly brilliant. And it would be unfair not to recognize Mussolini's great qualities...