Word: matthewes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make the play, Poet MacLeish reverently lifted pieces from the four gospelers and from Bach's B Minor Mass, St. John Passion and St. Matthew Passion. These fitted elements he reconciled into a compelling drama. And he reconciled the whole drama, in a way that has seldom been done, with the special predicaments of broadcasting...
...conjunction conceived a few magnificent moments: when the chorus snatches the question, "Lord, is it I?" from Matthew's lips, carries it off in a gust of singing; when, describing the events at the sepulcher, the speakers achieve an awesome counterpoint with their deepening, astounded repetitions. The passage...
...Matthew J. Harvey, Milton, Eliot House Committee (Secretary and Chairman), Student Council Interhouse Dance Committee...
...Died. Matthew Phipps Shiel, 81, Irish-descended, West Indies-born British novelist, writer of many a florid, adventurous novel, onetime (1887) "King Philip I" of tiny, one-square-mile Redonda, one of the, Leeward Islands (until the British Government moved in, ending his three-year "reign"); in Chichester, England...
Bach: Arias (Marian Anderson, contralto, with the RCA Victor Chamber Orchestra, Robert Shaw conducting; Victor, 6 sides). The mighty-voiced contralto, holding herself down to a small orchestra, is not at her best. Included are arias from three cantatas, the Christmas Oratorio and the Passion According to St. Matthew. Performance: fair...