Word: matthew
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BACH: THE ST. MATTHEW PASSION (London). Karl Miinchinger and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra give the masterpiece an interpretation that is lovingly faithful to Bach's design. It has an appropriately reverent quality rather than the overwhelming emotional thrust of massed voices that most often dominate baroque oratorios. Among the soloists, all competent, Peter Pears as the narrator and August Messthaler as Judas stand...
When it came to a number of other embarrassing aspects, though, the majority got out its brushes. Veteran Democratic Fund Raiser Matthew H. McCloskey, for example, had been accused of deliberately overpaying Maryland Insurance Man Don B. Reynolds $35,000 for writing a performance bond on the $20 million District of Columbia Stadium that McCloskey's firm was building. McCloskey claimed that it was only a bookkeeping goof, but Reynolds testified that $25,000 of the money was illegally channeled into the Democrats' 1960 presidential campaign fund through Baker. Generously, the committee found McCloskey's testimony "candid...
Died. Gertrude Clarke Whittall, 97, Washington patron of the arts who, after the death of her husband, wealthy Rug Manufacturer Matthew Whittall, in 1922, began the first of many endowments by presenting five priceless Stradivari instruments and Tourte bows to the Library of Congress, at the same time establishing a $1,225,000 Whittall Foundation to sponsor concerts (admission price: 25?) at which they would be played, and in later years a $644,000 Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund for readings and lectures; of complications following a hip injury; in Washington...
...familiar version, extracted from Matthew 7:12 and Luke...
Offered the job of U.S. Ambassador to Japan in 1932, Joseph Clark Grew had deep doubts: Japanese militarists al ready had made clear their intention to try to take over Asia. He consulted his wife, a granddaughter of Commodore Matthew C. Perry who had opened Japan to Western commerce...