Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their lives in the Basilica of San Giovanni in the small northern Italian town of Monza. Just how long they worked or how many of them there were, no one knows for sure, but when they were done, the chapel walls sparkled like pages out of an illuminated manuscript (see color). There, in 40-odd glowing frescoes, was the life and legend of Queen Theodolinda, who had ruled over the Lombards some 900 years before and was still cherished in memory...
...piece of music-Concerto No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra-that conveyed his emotions far more cogently than any words. That was in 1907. For reasons unknown. Violinist Geyer never played the work publicly, and at her death in 1957, twelve years after Bartok died, she left the manuscript to Swiss Conductor Paul Sacher. who performed it in Switzerland in 1958. Last week Violinist Isaac Stern, playing in Carnegie Hall with the Philadelphia Orchestra, introduced Bartok's long-lost concerto to New York concertgoers...
Actually, the first movement is familiar as one of Bartok's Two Portraits for violin and orchestra. The second, fast movement, however, never got off the pages of Violinist Geyer's manuscript (which carries a dedication from Bartok that Conductor Sacher regards as too personal for publication). The 20-minute concerto emerged as a first-rate work-colorful, rhapsodic, characterized by soaring melodic lines of originality and striking beauty. Frankly romantic, it gives only occasional hints of the later Bartok of the second Violin Concerto-notably in the abrupt shifts of mood, the raucous attacks of the second...
...would normally tell the history of such a work, are missing. Some scholars date it from the 6th century, others from the 9th. In any case, in 1006 it was in the church at Kells in the county of Meath. In that year, according to one chronicler, the great manuscript, "the chief relic of the Western world," was stolen. When it was found a couple of months later half buried in the ground, its gold, gem-studded covers were gone...
...acquired by Anglican Bishop James Ussher, commissioned by James I to collect the historic treasures of the church. On Aug. 24, 1621, the good bishop duly noted that he had "reckoned the leaves of the booke and found them to be in number 344." When Ussher died, the manuscript was turned over to Trinity College...