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...warned of a new village ordinance: that none will be admitted to the theatre who have not arrived in town the day before and planned to stay until the morning after, thus contributing two nights' lodging fees. Motorists will find a good new road from Munich. A new Christus, Alois Lang, will succeed Cousin Anton...
...program is as follows Prelude and Fugue, E major Vincent Lubeck Trio Johann Krebs Prelude and Fugue, C major Georg Bohm Hodie Christus natus est Palestrina Adoramus to Dei Lassus Confitemini Alesandro Constantinl Aria de Chiesa Anonymous Italian 17th Century Fugue, D miner Pollarolf Regina Coeli Brahma Meet and right it is to praise the Lord Arkhangelsky Fantasia on "Komm, Helliger Gelat, Herre Gott" J. S. Bach
Anton Lang, who has played Christus three times, was succeeded by his cousin, Alois Lang, chosen from three candidates. The part is exhausting. Anton is too old. So he was made the prolog reader. Alois Lang, now 38, was understudy to Anton Lang in the last performance (1922). He failed then of election to the Christus role by only a few votes and played the High Priest Nathaniel. Like his revered cousin, Alois Lang looks the part - a gentle carver of wooden Christs who has been letting his hair and beard grow for years to be prepared...
...centuries (see p. 44), some for cramping into commercial dimensions a grave, long-drawn folk epic. The Palm. Sunday entry into Jerusalem. was a complex, splendid orchestration of crowds flowing in great whorls toward and about the temple portals, looking ever backward to the approaching figure of the Christus. For the Last Supper, Leonardo's faded painting was lavishly restored in living shapes. On Calvary the greensward was cool, terribly oblivious of the burdened crosses. Solemnities of tone from orchestra, organ and choir sounded through the entire pageant. In the street outside a fire siren wailed. For more than...
...Christus Vintit Christus Regnat Christus Imperat...