Word: jeremiah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vocal soloists with chorus and full orchestra-but with no trumpets, and a Flügelhorn and alto trombone added-was presented by Venice's International Festival of contemporary music. Stravinsky's text and title-Threni, id est Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae (Threnody: Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah)-come from three of the familiar elegies from the Catholic Vulgate Bible. Written in the tone-row technique that Stravinsky once scorned but has lately adopted, the work has a spare, transparent orchestral accompaniment that for long stretches consists of no more than an occasional chord. To prepare the Hamburg Radio...
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Though indifferent to religion, Henriques is finally done in through his regard for a gentle religion teacher. Jeremiah Hirsch endures his fate better than most because he believes that even in Westerbork he walks with God. He reads his Bible, forces hatred from his heart and mind, achieves the near-impossible article of faith that even the Nazis are his brothers. Cynically at work saving his own skin, Henriques is yet fascinated by Hirsch's stubborn spiritual strength. On the day Hirsch and his family are led to the train, all the suppressed guilt in Henriques boils...
...generally noticed in the U.S. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) was considered by most critics "an experimental film," but it has since served serious moviemakers as an invaluable primer on the uses of the closeup. Day of Wrath (1948) was a tenebrous expatiation on the theme of Jeremiah ("The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked"), and it roused Broadway critics to such a passion of love-hate that it ran for 13 weeks at a Manhattan art theater...