Word: gregorian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...except in leap year when it had 30. In 8 B.C. Emperor Augustus wished his month to have 31 days instead of 30, snatched the extra day from February. By 1582 the inexact Calendar had slipped away ten days from its relation to the seasons. The new Gregorian Calendar was created that year, lopping off the ten extra days. In 1752 Great Britain and its colonies (including America) adopted it, but by that time the accumulated error was eleven days. Turkey adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1917, Russia in 1918, Rumania and Serbia in 1919, Greece...
...different plays have been incorporated into this translation and the play as it will be performed tonight consists of nine scenes. It was first composed in the late fifteenth century and is representative of a popularized type of miracle play, containing the conventional nativity group, angels, devils, and shepherds. Gregorian chants are used to furnish an appropriate musical background for the action. The visual setting for the performance is the Germanic Museum reproduction of the "Golden Gate" of the cathedral of Freiburg, Germany...
Ildebrando Pizzetti was born in Parma and he has honored it before this in, for example, his Ildebrando da Parma. He studied at the Conservatory of Parma for six years, specializing in the model qualities of Greek and Gregorian music. Since 1918, he has directed the Florence Conservatory. In Florence he lives now in almost ratlike retirement. His wife, a descendant of Stradivarius, is dead. He likes quiet and hates traveling; he was made sorrowful before the War when his enemies, on account of his "revolutionary" music, made him the object of belligerent slander. His most famed work previous...
...pajamas, full dress trousers and slippers) from a train burning between Luxor and Cairo, Egypt. Correspondents cabled of his departure from Cairo and of his arrival at Naples at the end of March. They met him at Rome and, in the city where Pope Gregory XIII promulgated the present Gregorian calendar, heard him again urge adoption of "my one hobby at present"-a calendar of 13 months with 28 days each (TIME, Nov. 21, 1927, et ante...
...onetime (1907-09) husband of Conductor Leginska, whose New York Days and Nights had its first orchestral performance at the hands of the new Beethoven Symphony Orchestra. Critics liked his musical descriptions of a murky autumn morning on a ferry; of the chimes of St. Patrick blended with a Gregorian Chant; of Pell Street, Manhattan's Chinatown, and an old Chinaman playing on his single-stringed fiddle; of Greenwich Village and its weighty dramas made of little lives; of Times Square, its crowds, its glitter, its noise...