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Restoring an old master is always a ticklish job. When Belgian authorities announced last fall that they were planning a major cleanup job on the 15th Century Adoration of the Lamb by the brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck, they drew a chorus of protests. The Lamb is Belgium's No. 1 art treasure. It had already suffered through 500 years of wars, fires, thefts* and the ministrations of countless well-meaning artist-restorers...
Last week Belgian art lovers could breathe easy. The restored Lamb, back in place in Ghent's Cathedral of St. Bavon, looked better than it had for centuries. Long-obscured flowers sprouted from the grass, the grey clouds that once hovered about the holy dove had become a rain-bow-hued nimbus, and a lovingly detailed background landscape emerged clearly from the greenish-brown mist of generations. Everywhere, colors brightened to the rich blues, yellows and reds the Van Eycks had originally painted...
...unexpectedly long concert tour in Europe next spring will prevent conductor Pierre Monteux from accepting the post of Horatio Appleton Lamb music lecturer which was offered to him by the University...
Pierre Monteux, conductor of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra since 1935, will in all probability be next year's Horatio Appleton Lamb Visiting Lecturer, it was learned last night. Monteux received the offer from the Music Department recently...
Previous awards under the fund, established by Mrs. H. A. Lamb in honor of Horatio Appleton Lamb '71, went to Georges Eneeco in 1929-30, Gustav Holst, 1931-32. Hugo Leichentritt, 1933-34, Bela Bartok, 1943. Aaron Copland, now Charles Eliot Norton Professor, in 1944, Otto Kinkeldey, 1946-47, and, Carl Weinrich...