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...Kyrie Eleison, Greek words which mean "Lord have mercy upon us." The conventional divisions follow: the Gloria (Gloria in excelsis Deo, "Glory be to God on high"), the Credo (Credo in unum Deum, "I believe in one God"), the Sanctus (Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus, "Holy, holy, holy") and the Agnus Dei which begins "O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world," and ends "Grant us thy Peace." Choruses, solos, duets ? Bach wrote with a prodigal hand. Deeply pleading is his opening Kyrie, but for many there is in all music no passage more moving than...
...Wurts, like one of the social dragonesses in The Cabala, famed novel by Thornton Niven Wilder, is a rich, enigmatic fragment in the age-old mosaic of Roman society. Tremendously dim, tremendously "important," she lives in the via dei Funari; the twisted "Street of the Rope Makers," on a floor of the Palazzo Mattei. Two other floors are occupied respectively by Principe Lodovico Mattei, himself, and by fidgety but obsequious Don Guido Antici-Mattei, a relation who is probably poor but, like rich Mrs. Wurts, tremendously dim, tremendously important to the Wurts Cabala...
...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
Bystanders reflected on the havoc that uplift organizations might wreak by the purification of opera. Few plots are essentially nice; heroines are usually either unfortunate girls who have been seduced (Marguerite in Faust, Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana) or unfaithful ones (Nedda in Pagliacci, Fiora in L'Amore dei Tre Re, Mélisande in Pelléas et Mélisande, Isolde in Tristan und Isolde). In To sea the plot hinges on whether Tosca will give herself to Scarpia to save Cavaradossi. Double beds are the most important properties in Der Rosenkavalier. Don Giovanni is a series...
...Philippine Refining Corp.). During the War, Hamilton products sold well, the Hamilton fortune mightily increased. Returning to the U. S., he lived quietly in Great Neck, L. I. Sir Joseph Duveen and others were commissioned to start an Italian collection for the Hamilton home. They bought paintings by Veneziano, dei-Conti, Francia, Perugino, Melzi, Desiderio, Botticelli. Titian. The Hamilton home became a Renaissance rarity, authentic in painting, sculpture, tapestry, velvet, bric-a-brac. When it proved too small to hold the collections, Collector Hamilton moved to a 14-room apartment on Park Avenue, Manhattan...