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Civilized Customs. In the Transkei area, South Africa, school officials received examination applications from students named Dinah Beauty, Te Deum, Sweetness, Alectricia, Hygenia, Governor General...
...faith is summed up in a speech from The Lady-a. joyful Te Deum asserted against his century's sad Nunc Dimittis...
Then the Pope intones the Te Deum of thanksgiving, while St. Peter's big bell sets all the bells of Rome's 400 churches to ringing. At the Pontifical Mass in the Basilica of St. Peter's, which ends the ceremony, the Epistle (the Book of Judith, 13:23) begins: "Blessed art thou, O daughter, by the Lord the most high God, above all women upon the earth . . . Because He hath so magnified thy name this day, that thy praise shall not depart out of the mouth...
When he walked onstage in the great hall of the Society of the Friends of Music, a sell-out audience was waiting to see if Conductor Walter had lost any of his old magic. After a magnificent performance of Bruckner's Te Deum, they were still wary. But after Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, they could hold back no longer. Almost before Bruno could bring his baton down, a young girl had rushed to the podium with a handful of red roses. For fifteen minutes, holding his posies before him, he bowed to the bravos and applause...
...young Toscanini, Verdi found a conductor he could trust. Before a performance of Verdi's Quattro Pezzi Sacri, Toscanini once called on him, told him that he felt a retard was needed in one passage of the Te Deum. When Verdi heard him play it, he patted him on the back, said: "Splendid! That is just how I heard it in my mind." "Why didn't you write it that way?" asked Toscanini. Said Verdi: "I was afraid it would be exaggerated." Said Giacomo Puccini of Toscanini, who had conducted the world premiere of his La Boheme: "Toscanini...