Word: forebearers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...published an interesting profile of Germany's new Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano in the June 20 issue . . . The Lorelei was not written by [his forebear] Clemens Brentano, but by Heinrich Heine . . . When the Nazis came to power, they felt they had to "appropriate" it for the Nordic race. They omitted the name of the Jew Heine and just called it "a folksong." Clemens Brentano, however, has one real claim to fame: he was the joint editor of Des Knaben Wunderhorn, one of the most important folksong collections in the history of German literature...
...please his royal patrons, who liked to identify themselves with famous forebears or Biblical characters, the artist worked out his scenes as a series of allegories. In the main scene, Charles is shown as a monarch of France, and the lady with crossed arms before him is his sister, Anne de Beaujeu, who ruled as regent from Louis XI's death in 1483 until Charles came of age. But the scene they are acting is thought to be a Biblical one: the meeting either of King Ahasuerus and Esther or of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Charles...
...traditional Christmas broadcast to the people of her Commonwealth. In the speech, which this year originated for the first time outside of Britain, she deplored the tendency to compare her reign with that of Elizabeth I. "Frankly, I do not myself feel at all like my great Tudor forebear, who was blessed with neither husband nor children, who ruled as a despot," she said, "but there is at least one significant resemblance between her age and mine. For her kingdom, small though it may have been . . . was yet great in spirit and well-endowed with men who were ready...
...Hoot Mon's forebear was Hambletonian X, ancestor of almost every modern U.S. trotter and pacer. In 24 seasons, he got 1,331 foals, bringing nearly $200,000 in stud fees to his owner, a onetime farm hand named William Rysdyk, who bought him for $125. Hambletonian (after whom the race is named) in turn was sired by Abdallah I, an evil-tempered individualist who, after siring hundreds of foal's, wound up at 31 hitched to a fish peddler's wagon. After venerefully kicking the wagon to pieces, proud old Abdal lah spent the final months...
...program was so discriminatingly planned that I cannot forebear some discussion of it. There chief strands of late 16th century music were brought together. Clement's famous Adoramus and a Benedictus by Palestrina represented what was called the stile antico, a restrained contrapuntal style used in orthodox church music. Giovanni Gabrieli's dazzling Symphoniae Sacrae combined elements of both the Renaissance splendor of Venice and the Baroque love o the spectacular; finally, a number of chansons by Lassus, Arcadelt, and Regnard exemplified the piquant secular songs of the period...