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...rare heroes. O'Casey can also bring himself to toss a rhetorical posy: "Oh, Shaw, there is not your equal now! When shall we see your like again!" A roguish wordmonger, O'Casey peppers each page with Joycean puns and wordplays, e.g., Tea Deum, imaginot line, the rust was silence. Ever the dramatist, O'Casey savors his exit with ..a tender salute to old age and a last toast to life: "The sun has gone, dragging her gold and green garlands down . . . Soon it will be time to kiss the world goodbye...
...Italian bandits, and gasping out a final curse upon mankind"). But slowly the critical tide has been turning. This year, following the 150th anniversary of his birth, orchestras across the U.S. have played more Berlioz than ever before. Tanglewood alone performed eight compositions-including the huge choral Te Deum and the Romeo and Juliet symphony-before the Requiem...
...chortled a hearty "Te Deum...
...treats advertisers as they have rarely been treated before: he puts on their commercials only when he sees fit, edits and cuts them. Barbe is busy planning an elaborate Easter week program including Marcel Dupré's Stations of the Cross and the Bruckner Te Deum. Says he: "The assumption that the American people do not know and do not like good music is strictly for the birds...
...generals, admirals and other high-ranking officers filed before him, bowing. On one side of the throne room 50 envoys, including U.S. Ambassador Lincoln MacVeagh, looked on. After the ceremony, bigwigs and diplomats proceeded to the Church of St. Francis the Great for a thanksgiving ceremony with a Te Deum Mass...