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...complete understanding of holidays, however, must include more than just abstract drama. While sixteenth century artists like Johann Sebastian Bach certainly had a sincere religious motivation to continue the tradition of setting the Passion--the biblical story of Christ's arrest and crucifixion--to music, they certainly did not fail to take advantage of the abstract drama which secular audiences can easily appreciate...
...directed the discussion away from Bach himself, claiming that Bach added little or nothing to the anti-Semitism of the text of the book of John. In fact, the arias that Bach added are far more devotional than accusatory, whereas the gospel texts repeatedly blame "die Juden" for the crucifixion. John depicts the Jews as a vengeful, cowardly mass that appeals to Pilate and Caesar's law to do their dirty work for them...
...Real." The crowd almost religiously attacked the stage, wanting to be close to the man. Moby, sweaty and smiling, took in the apotheosis, finally reprised in "Thousand," the final number of the second encore. As the drum machines raced towards a thousand beats per minute, Moby assumed a crucifixion pose, standing on an amp, stretching out his arms and looking up. The crowd cried for more, but the show was over...
Other artists, however, were already a little past their prime. Ernst's paintings in America, with their ambiguous figures emerging like dream images from runny, blotted, metamorphic landscapes, hardly compare with his work in the 1920s. And though Chagall's Yellow Crucifixion, 1943, swarms with images of contemporary loss and persecution--the burning shtetl, the fleeing refugees, the sinking torpedoed ship--its formal softness indicates the turn his work would take after the war toward pious ethno-kitsch...
...Officer Frank A. Bicancardi of Lawrenceville, Massachusetts, yesterday, describing the attempted self-crucifixion he discovered while following up on a reported break-in at a local church...