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...Director Jones, big test of the two-day festival was the five-hour B Minor Mass. Composed about 1738, when Johann Sebastian Bach was in the plenitude of his powers, it is the only Catholic mass written by the Lutheran composer.* Bach chose the form because its complexity gave adequate play to his technical resources and expression to his love of God. For many years performed nowhere in the U. S. but at Bethlehem, it is now an annual climax to other choir seasons, is perhaps the most famous liturgical choral work in existence...
...good musical. The plot, alone, places the cast in a hopeless situation, an obstacle they don't even try to surmount. For the climax, there is a dizzy succession of pits, cliffs, instruments, masks, "Lonely Hearts," and Jeanette MacDonald. It features the music of a mad genius, a combination "Johann Strauss, Becthoven, Richard Strauss, Bach, Brahms," and Walt Disney...
That was not necessary. But one night last week, in the Nicollet Hotel's ballroom, Conductor Mitropoulos and his men played a concert of musical burlesques and waltzes by Johann Strauss. Then, sure enough, they did pass the hat-to some 400 of Minneapolis' solider citizens. Into it dropped $20,000 and promises that the Minneapolis Symphony's annual guarantee fund of $130,000 would be fully subscribed for the next two years...
...Angela, served as his housekeeper at Berchtesgaden. His father, also named Alois, was a source of great shame to the Führer: he had three wives* and died a drunkard. Furthermore, Father Alois was the illegitimate son of an Austrian peasant girl, Maria Schicklgruber, and a miller named Johann Hiedler, who refused to recognize the child. The boy therefore grew up under his mother's name, and not until he was 40 years old did he get permission from the authorities to use his patronymic (which he transmuted to Hitler). Had that permission not been granted, Nazis would...
...program of tonight's concert will be as follows: Kyrie from the Mass in B Minor Johann Sebastian Bach Elegischer Gesang Ludwig Van Beethoven Finale "Canticle of the Sun" from San Franceso D'Assisi G. Francesco Malipiero Pour les Funerailles d'un Soldat Lili Boulanger Pie Jesu Lili Boulanger Psaume: Du Fond de l'Abime Lili Boulanger Psaume XXIV Lili Boulanger...