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Pioneer in the composition of English congregational hymns was Isaac Watts (1674-1748). Author of Our* God, our help in ages past, often voted the greatest English hymn of all, Watts was also a writer of hymns for children, authored the well-known query, "How doth the little busy bee . . ." and the warning that "Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do." But his touch for juvenile hymns is not always suited to modern taste. For example...
...century ago, race relations in New Zealand were no better than in many other parts of the world. The white man had arrived, made war on the native Maoris, a people of Polynesian race, killed many and driven the survivors off the good pasture lands. In 1856 Dr. Isaac E. Featherston, a member of Parliament, wrote: "The Maoris are dying out. Our plain duty, as good, compassionate colonists, is to smooth down their dying pillow. Then history will have nothing to reproach us with...
...broken his vow not to play in public again until Franco's government had been ousted from his native Spain. Said Oboist Marcel Tabuteau: "It is not possible to believe what Casals does with a bow. There has never been anyone like him." For voluble young Violinist Isaac Stern, Casals had "opened a door in the walls-our conventional conceptions of music-and showed us how we can go beyond without losing respect for the music itself." What he would remember most was "the meeting with a man, and the relation of this man to his art. This...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra's Conductor Charles Munch, the new concerto was "horribly difficult," but it had its good features; it "exploited the orchestra very adroitly, used the modern language" effectively and, altogether, it was "très intéressant." Pudgy Violinist Isaac Stern agreed. He had "worked and worked until the music was part of me." When his fiddling was finished, he grinned up into the balcony of Symphony Hall, then hammed his exit offstage, staggering as if brutally exhausted. Up in the balcony, smiling Composer William Schuman seemed satisfied with the rehearsal for the world premiere...
...insistent urging of his pupil, U.S. Violinist Alexander Schneider, had finally moved Casals to agree to play "in the town of my exile." Next June, in the Cathedral of St. Pierre, Casals will lead an orchestra largely recruited among U.S. musicians. Violinists Schneider, Joseph Szigeti and Isaac Stern, Pianists Mieczyslaw Horszowski and Rudolf Serkin and Casals himself will be among the soloists. When the festival is over, Cellist Casals plans to return to his self-imposed silence...