Word: maters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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VERDI: FOUR SACRED PIECES (Angel). Just before he wrote Falstaff at 79, Verdi composed the Ave Maria and Laudi alia Vergine Maria; he finished the Te Deum and Stabat Mater at 83. Together they make a magnificent and devout peroration to the lifework of a man who was a freethinker in his youth. The Te Deum includes a most urgent prayer, and Verdi asked that the music be buried with him. Carlo Maria Giulini leads the Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus (240 voices) in a stereophonic recording that matches the soaring splendor of the music...
...EDUCATED EYE-Perls, 1016 Madison Ave. at 78th. Paintings and sculptures from the private collections of alumni and parents of the Dalton School, lent to benefit the alma mater. They include Cezanne's Under the Trees, Klee's Landscape with Signs, Picasso's witty Nude and Woman Washing her Feet, Hofmann's The Conjurer (a painter mid his pots), Calder's 1963 mobile, Yellow Flower. Through...
Lyons hopes to salvage enough time from his work with WGBH both to write on his own and to begin work as a trustee of the University of Massachusetts, his alma mater...
Take the Dame. Across the land this football season, the great American college song has become the great American mumble. In a day when Hail to Thee, Oh Fink might best express "school spirit," the old Alma Mater idea seems "too hot-rocket" to kids unwilling to give "that kind of allegiance just to a college." Dissenters refuse to rise and sing because "your blanket falls off." Princeton hearts pound at Old Nassau, but Princeton mouths go da di da. Even Georgia Tech's "ramblin' wrecks" sing to the Alma Mater in a vast hum, as of bees...
Hills & Vales. The American Alma Mater goes back to 1836, when the Unitarian author of Fair Harvard stole the Irish ditty Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms. Before World War I, Yale lifted Germany's patriotic Die Wacht am Rhein for its own Bright College Years. Harvard mined the Marseillaise for On to Victory, and Columbia hitched Stand Columbia to Deutschland über Alles...