Word: ils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program of music by Monteverdi, including Il Ballo Dello Ingrate, and several shorter pieces, was given Tuesday and Wednesday evenings in Fogg Museum. The depth and versatility of the Renaissance master was displayed in music covering a wide stylistic and emotional range, varying from poignancy, to austerity, to an ornate light-heartedness...
Phyllis Kinney-Evans and Helen Raisz sang the light and exuberant duets, "Chiome d'Oro" and "Chime, Dov'e Il Mie Ben," with stylistic insight. The dramatic interplay of three instrumental choirs distinguished the song, "Con Che Seavita," tastefully sung by Miss Kinney-Evans...
...different side of Monterverdi's personality emerged in the opera, Il Ballo Delle Ingrate. The melodies are often dry and austere, and occasionally uninteresting, as when a series of syllables are uttered in monotone...
...seats on the trade union committee. The Communists got nine seats less than last time, though they waged an all-out campaign, led by activists carefully trained in a six-month course at Palmiro Togliatti Institute. Though the Communists labeled the free trade unions "docile to the will of il padrone (the boss),'' Fiat workers had come to see that they won pay raises under the free unions. Nor did they lose man-hours and pay packets on wasteful strikes (which were reduced by 90% in 1955). The ability of the free unions to stand on the record...
Outside in St. Peter's Square a crowd of 30,000 assembled for Pius XII's birthday blessings, shouting "Viva il Papa!" and "Auguri!" (best wishes). There were presents, too, fit for a Pope: a volume chronicling the Pontiff's achievements in chapters titled "The Pope as Writer," "The Pope as Jurist," "The Pope of the Virgin Mary" (by Thomas Merton), "The Pope's Works for Peace," etc.; another book dedicated to him by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences titled Galileo, Unjustly Condemned; a Steuben glass cup from U.S. Cardinal Spellman...