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HARVARD GLEE CLUB and the Vassar College Choir will present a concert of sacred music including two motets by Gabrieli and the Mass in a by Anton Bruckner. Emmanuel Church, Boston; 3:00 P.M. Free...
Samuel Barber, 50, saw his Die Natali: Choral Preludes for Christmas given its first New York performance by the New York Philharmonic. The remarkably successful piece is essentially a patchwork of familiar Christmas carols artfully embedded in unfamiliar harmonies-0 Come, O Come, Emmanuel, We Three Kings of Orient Are, Silent Night, God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen. The mood for the most part is reflective, the tone intensely lyrical, as most of Barber's best music is. The only truly shocking section of the piece is also one of the most effective: the brasses suddenly explode into a jazzy...
...Nigeria, a national "church" that sprang up in the '40s has largely subsided, but natives flock to such offshoots as the Commercial Vision Seeing, the Father Divine Apostolic, and the Cherubim and Seraphim churches. Lagos has its local "Jesus" in one Emmanuel Odumosu, who insists on strict abstinence from alcohol but has seven wives and rides in a luxurious Pontiac car driven by a chauffeur...
...usual fashion of making martyrs out of men who are traitors in their own country, Soviet Russia last month issued a postage stamp honoring Greek Communist Leader Emmanuel Glezos, 37, recently convicted in Greece for spying against his own country (TIME, Aug. 3). To the U.S.S.R.'s Ambassador Mikhail Sergeev, Greece angrily protested the issuance of the stamp. But Moscow replied that it had no responsibility in the matter, since the stamp was issued by the "independent" postal authorities of the U.S.S.R. Not to be outdone, the Greek government last week issued two stamps bearing the image of another...
Still vivid in the memory of most Athenians is the day in May 1941 when 19-year-old Emmanuel Glezos slipped silently into the ruins atop the Acropolis and tore down the Nazi swastika that desecrated the sacred rock. With this first open defiance of Greece's World War II German occupiers, Glezos made himself a national hero...