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...never able to command such an aggregation, but several times he came close, notably in his most magnificent score, the Grande Messe des Morts (Requiem). That opus calls for a 210-member chorus, full symphony orchestra, four separate brass choirs (labeled according to the points of the compass), plus a battery of 16 kettledrums. Few of today's symphonies can afford to stage the work. At Tanglewood, Mass, last week, Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony Orchestra undertook the task, and the result was some of the loveliest (and loudest) music that ever echoed through the Berkshire hills...
Love at First Sight. It is true, says Emmanuel, that the American often presents a kind of freshness that the European student lacks, but "too many American students neglect the compass which history gives them for the sake of a personal approach to the classics . . . How quickly the American student makes friends with a book or a man and treats them as if they were his contemporaries! He hardly knows the background from which they arise. They surge out of his own mental world, haunt him, call forth in him an instantaneous and, frequently, a passionate reaction. A fortnight later...
Compared to the splendid enterprise led by Hunt, the Izzard expedition was a joke. Against some 360 coolies, Izzard had five. He had no map or compass and his equipment consisted in part of two pairs of sneakers, a few pots, an old U.S. Army pup tent, an umbrella to ward off the leeches that fell like leaves from the trees. The incongruous team traveled fast and far over rough country carpeted with rhododendrons, orchids and magnolias. Izzard had never climbed anything more formidable than a flight of stairs, but he caught up to the British advance party after...
Reporter Russell was not impressed. "The Government appears to be helplessly drifting with the current of events," he wrote, "having neither bow nor stern, neither keel nor deck, neither rudder, compass, sails nor steam." In the seceding Southern states, where he was greeted as a friend and potential ally, Russell maintained strict impartially. On Morris Island, S.C., he was urged to drink to "something awful" for Lincoln and the North, but he sharply declined...
...general, the show boxed the compass under the four strong winds of realism, expressionism, surrealism and abstractionism. All summer there will be muttering in a dozen tongues about the jury's verdicts, for the Venice Biennale is nothing if not controversial; it attempts nothing less than a summing up of art now. And today's art, as the Biennale proves, has neither a dominant style nor authoritative quality...