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...parts as the melodic masterpiece that the French have come to regard it (the Paris Opera-Comique has it in its regular repertory, as does La Scala). Outstanding were the fine tenor aria in Act I familiar to Caruso fans ("Je crois entendre encore"), the thunderous and majestic choral hymn of vengeance in Act II, a rhapsodic and haunting baritone aria...
...tune of Onward, Christian Soldiers, is a tribute to the blazing fame of Britain's World War I Prime Minister. To the public and the London press, he was "The Man Who Won the War," "The Welsh Wizard" and "The Prime Minister of Europe." In the hymn-singing valleys of his homeland, his prestige was greater than that of the Prince of Wales (whom he taught Welsh), and no one could aspire to electoral office without the blessing of David Lloyd George. Hence the song, devised as a political parody by a new generation of Labor militants to ridicule...
...Krishnamurti, Huysmans and Mme. Blavatsky. He can write an outburst such as this-"I would like to penetrate up to the eyes to make them waggle ferociously, dear crazy metallurgical eyes ... the radiating light that carries off the fecundating seeds of the stars"-and mean it as a hymn to Dostoevsky. Actually, it has as much to do with the Russian's tragic art and exact moral theorems as it has with lepidopterology or philately; the only thing it says is that Miller is excited in the presence of Dostoevsky-or Nietzsche, Nostradamus, Rabelais, et al.-just as some...
Poulenc: Gloria in G Major for Soprano, Chorus & Orchestra (Rosanna Carteri; the French National Radio-Television Orchestra, conducted by Georges Prêtre, with chorus conducted by Yvonne Gouverné; Angel). Poulenc's 'joyous hymn to God," commissioned last winter by the Koussevitzky Foundation is recorded for the first time. It is a remarkable work fashioned with greater simplicity than some of Poulenc's more brittle pieces, in turn reverent, mischievous and exultant...
...Leone's Prime Minister, Sir Milton Margai, and his guests of honor: Britain's Duke of Kent, Liberia's William Tubman, Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, U.S. Special Representative Thurgood Marshall. At midnight some 15,000 celebrators jammed Freetown's stadium, sang the hymn Lead, Kindly Light, watched as spotlights dimmed on the Union Jack atop the flagpole, cheered ten seconds later as a new green, white and blue flag fluttered in its place. At that moment, little Sierra Leone (slightly larger than West Virginia; pop. 2,500,000), Britain's first colony...