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...minute work for six vocal soloists with chorus and full orchestra-but with no trumpets, and a Flügelhorn and alto trombone added-was presented by Venice's International Festival of contemporary music. Stravinsky's text and title-Threni, id est Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae (Threnody: Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah)-come from three of the familiar elegies from the Catholic Vulgate Bible. Written in the tone-row technique that Stravinsky once scorned but has lately adopted, the work has a spare, transparent orchestral accompaniment that for long stretches consists of no more than an occasional chord...
Threni opens with the chorus singing mournfully over the sighing orchestra, gradually builds to a moving tenor solo, accompanied by the Flügelhorn, to the text, "Behold, O Lord, for I am in distress." In one passage of labyrinthine difficulty the two tenors and two basses sing two separate canons simultaneously. Except for the second section of the third elegy, the tempo is funereal, and throughout the mood is unrelievedly austere. Perhaps the most remarkable thing about the piece is that despite the rigidities of the tone-row technique (and for the first time Stravinsky used all twelve tones...
...held and questioned for about 20 hours before his arraignment, the court held that his oral and written confessions made during that period were inadmissible: "Circumstances may justify a brief delay . . . But the delay must not be of a nature to give opportunity for the extraction of a confession." fl Upset, on the bi.sis of its recent Smith Act and Watkins case decisions (TIME...
...pronouns-I, you, he and she-which he designated I, II, III, and which retain the same form when they shift from subject to object. Plurals are indicated with the figure 2. Thus I² we or us; II² you (plural); III² they or them; Q1 trees; fl houses. Verbs, which keep the same form for all persons, are preceded by a single line when active, a double line when passive. Thus i is to see, II to be seen. A dot before the verb line indicates the past tense, a dot behind the line the future. Some...
...Yardlings, strengthened by the return of Fl etcher Davis, will race one of Dartmouth's most powerful freshman squads...