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...modern side in contrast to the all-Mozart program of last week. The opening and closing selections--both 20th century arrangements of 18th century compositions--furnished an interesting contrast between the idioms of the two centuries, and between different methods of arrangement. adaptation of a harpsichord suite by Dominico Scarlatti left the original melody and harmony unaltered, merely adding drum, tambourine, triangle, and xylophone to the traditional 18th century orchestra. Even those additions did not alter the character of the composition markedly, for these tinkling and rattling instruments gave an orchestral approximation of the harpsichord tone...
...Enchanted April" is as follows: Mrs. Fisher, Agnes Love '34; Mrs. Wilkins, Elizabeth G. Morrison '34; Mrs. Arbuthnot, Edwina Morgulis, '32; Francesca, Marie Driscoll '32; Lady Caroline Dexter, Bettye Jean Crocker '32; Clerk, Florence Usher '33; Thomas Briggs, P. G. Hoffman '32; Ferdinand Arundel, V. S. Hodges '34; Dominico, S. D. King '34; Mr. Wilkins, J. F. Joyce...
...world. Very little is known about El Greco. Even his name is in doubt; students believe that it was Theotocopuli, but the Spaniards of Toledo, in whose country he passed the richest part of his life, found this name barbarous, and never wrote or spoke of him except as Dominico Greco. Great princes of the 16th Century, whose eyes were unsealed, honored him by this name; the men of nearer times, putting on once more fetters laid off in the Renaissance, wondered only whether Greco was mad or astigmatic, a Cretan voluptuary, or a disciple of the art of Byzantium...
...true that Dominico Theotocopuli was mad. It is true that he was astigmatic, for one must believe that sanity and sight lie in numbers, and certainly he did not see or think as did any other man of his time. He saw the spirit in the body, shapes of the mind in every earthly shape. Only a few saints and mathematicians have understood as he did; they, too, were mad. Heads in which a cone is buried; elongated muscles and loins growing up through the paint in mystery like weeds or flowers; skies that break, trees that kneel, faces...