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Last week Perón told a group of party high-ups: "When Christ saw Golgotha looming ahead, He no longer insisted on personal leadership but sent His disciples out to broadcast His work . . . Our movement was at the outset a personal movement, but as the builder of Peronismo, I know that I, too, am nearing Golgotha. I want to follow Christ's example and leave not twelve but millions of disciples to spread my doctrine...
...with radical rhythmical structures, later with the twelve-tone technique, but absorbed only what he wanted from them and went his own way. His musical language now reflects both Schoenberg and Debussy, but its message is personal. The Violin Concerto conveys a sense of warmth and tragedy; his oratorio Golgotha expresses his profound religious feeling ; his Petite Symphonie Concertante has some of the pastoral air that the composer has breathed on hikes about Switzerland...
...Amsterdam, the social demands on a shy composer are few: "I don't speak Dutch. I work in my corner." While he works, his music travels: his Symphonie Concertante will be played next season by the Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles and Rochester symphonies. Manhattan heard his Golgotha last winter, will hear Szigeti and the Violin Concerto next fall...
Barabbas, by Pär Lagerkvist. The story of a reprieved cutthroat who was haunted to the end by the memory of Golgotha; a fine novel by the 1951 Nobel Prizewinner (TIME...
Barabbas, by Par Lagerkvist. The story of a reprieved cutthroat who was haunted to the end by the memory of Golgotha; a fine novel by the 1951 Nobel Prizewinner (TIME...