Word: giovanni
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Mozart's Don Giovanni Overture, Sibelius' Symphony in D Major, No, 2, Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier Suite. Conductor: Dimitri Mitropoulos...
...minutes past 7 appears stocky, pink-cheeked Giovanni Stefanoli, 57, the Pope's aiutente di camera, who has been his personal servant for years. Giovanni is the first person who sees the Pope every morning. He stands in silence by the door from the bedroom to the private chapel. No word is spoken until after Mass...
...shone from one of history's great treasure houses, which was a library and a school as well. In the school, the oldest in Christendom, Saint Thomas Aquinas was once a pupil. In the library, which included unique manuscripts of Tacitus, Apuleius and Varro, such Renaissance scholars as Giovanni Boccaccio browsed and pilfered. Adalhard, Charlemagne's cousin, became a monk at Monte Cassino. So did Paul the Deacon, to whom Charlemagne wrote, in a letter, a phrase which epitomizes the abbey: Est nam certa quies fessis venientibus illuc-"For there is certain rest for the weary who come...
...mainly the work of 77-year-old Monsignor Angelo Mercati, Prefect of the Vatican Archives, who began looking into the papal roster during the reign of the present Pontiff's predecessor, Pius XI. Two centuries ago, Giovanni Marangoni, custodian of the Roman catacombs, made up a list of popes based largely on a series of dated papal portraits on the walls of the famed Roman church, St. Paul's Outside the Walls. Scholars had known that the old list was inaccurate, but it took Monsignor Mercati's diligent digging to discover how inaccurate it was. This week...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Mozart's overture to Don Giovanni, Hindemith's First Symphony, Lalo's Symphonic Espagnole. Soloist: Violinist Jacques Thibaud, in his first U.S. concert in 15 years. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski...