Word: hymns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first of his countrymen ever honored by the Swedish Academy, the unassuming, owlish-looking Serb was Yugoslav minister to Berlin when the Nazis invaded his country in 1941. Abandoning public life, he settled down to write a sweeping Bosnian trilogy, completed The Bridge on the Drina, a history-haunted hymn to his native land, while it was still under Nazi occupation. A onetime president of Yugoslavia's Communist Federation of Writers but never a party member, Andric (pronounced Ahndreach) celebrated his Nobel award with a slivovitz toast to Sweden, hoped despite his frail health to make the trip...
...orchestral score that holds few surprises; occasionally it is clamorously obvious, but at its best it admirably illuminates the singers' moods. The main strength of the score is in the vocal parts -vigorous, resourceful, utilizing melody as a dramatic weapon. Among the high points: the soaring hymn, Jesus, My Consolation, in which the town's elders celebrate the breaking of "Lucifer's bond," while in the loft above them Abigail joins in with her own acerbic, ironic cry of joy: I Open to Thee, O Jesus...
...Good Bad Boys. A generation or two of high school and college students, particularly those who have at least a sneering acquaintance with the Ivy League, still see in Catcher their hymn, their epic, their Treasury of Humor, and their manifesto against the world. A decade after first publication, the book still sells 250,000 copies a year in the U.S. Sociologist David Riesman assigns Catcher in his Harvard course on Character and Social Structure in the U.S., perhaps because every campus has its lonely crowd of imitation Holdens?doomed wearers of raincoats-in-December, who rehearse faithfully their Caulfield...
...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...