Word: heth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four-hour tour of Gettysburg, Civil War Buff Karl Barth, 76, astonished his guides with a fusillade of little-known facts. Led to the spot where the first large body of Confederate troops had deployed, the Swiss theologian smiled knowingly, "Yes, that was [Major General Henry] Heth's group." Told that a Lutheran seminary in which he was lunching had been used as a Union observation post, he nonchalantly rattled off the name of Major General John Buford as the post's commander. Moving south, Barth paused on a battlefield near Richmond. Va., raised a century-old Yankee...
...chorus got off to a ragged start. The section of Lassus's Lamentations of Jeremiah which it sang may be more suited to this large chorus than the Tallis setting which we heard last year, but the group did not give the important Greek letters Heth, Teth and Jod the great, impersonal majesty they must have. Part of the trouble lay with the women's weakness and faulty pitch; otherwise the chorus gave the Latin text an admirable portrayal. But because the closing Jerusalem did not reach the massiveness it needs, its contrasting somber ending had little finality...