Word: deo
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...with quick changes and buoyant tunes. The first Met diva to have her own TV series, Patrice opened with wit, authority, bounce and ten costume changes. She gave plenty of evidence that she can handle a TV repertory that will probably extend all the way from Verdi to Vo-deo...
...Coke cried out, "protecteth the King!" King James shouted back: "A traitorous speech! The King protecteth the law, and not the law the King!" James shook his fist furiously, but Coke stood his ground for the enduring greatness of England. Quod Rex non debet esse sub homine, sed sub Deo et Lege, Coke argued fiercely, meaning that the King himself should be under no man, but under God and the law. Now, in July 1957, the U.S. was issuing another call to greatness. The U.S. was proposing that nations should submit themselves to nothing less than a system of world...
...Margaret Lapsley, Marcia Heintzelman, Franklin van Halsema, and Thomas Beveridge were impressive in both vocal quality and understanding interpretation. A brilliant accompaniment was supplied by pianists Jonathan Thackeray and Bernard Kreger. In equally excellent accompaniment by a brass choir from the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra highlighted the performance of Jubilate Deo, a robust sacred work by the 16th Century Venetian master Giovanni Gabrieli. The choice of this concluding work was a happy one, balancing the opening Palestrina work of the same period but of completely different style. For the student, the entire program was, in fact, an excellent lesson...
...Superior (movingly sung by Gianna Pederzini) reveals on her deathbed to the sorrowing nuns her fear that God has abandoned her. Aided by La Scala's magnificent sets, the opera builds from that point to a dramatic third-act climax in which Blanche's calm recitation of Deo Patri Sit Gloria is counterpoised against the offstage thuds of the guillotine and the screams of the hysterical mob. The reaction of first-night critics was divided. Some were charmed by the opera's lyricism and moved by its emotional power; others found its music imitative or thought they...
...Proctor changed his mind. "You'll save us?" asked Sam Lawrence. "No." said Gifford quietly, "it's we who will be saved." The "Hungarians" were hustled off behind the altar then, and the people in St. Matthew's raised their Christmas voices in Gloria in Excelsis Deo...