Word: medievales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FOR nearly 30 years, Medieval Art Expert James J. Rorimer has been intrigued by the strange similarity of two superb 15th-century tapestries. In both of them, the same principal characters were prominently featured. Their borders were identical in design, and each had been restored along one side. But the...
An approach to the Cantata might be made by way of Gide's aphorism (which Stravinsky quotes in his Poetics of Music) that the beauty of classical works is made evident only by virtue of their subjugated romanticism. One must constantly look for those moments which bring to brief light...
When the war was over, the Society went back to more scholarly pursuits. In 1948, members were involved with problems of uniqueness and interpolation in mathematics, and the magnetic moments of nucleii in physics. A biologist was working on slime molds, an historian on a History of Bukhara translated from...
Hubert Lamb, who teaches composition at the Longy School, wrote his songs Innocentium Carmina two years ago. Drawn from the medieval poetry collection Carmina Burana, they retain the original Latin text, scored for baritone and wind quintet. It is scarcely surprising to learn that Mr. Lamb is an authority on...
In the New Deal days, a forthright British industrialist was introduced to a trustbusting U.S. Government lawyer. Said the Briton: "I've read your books and I know you to be an intelligent man. I know that you know that these antitrust suits of yours don't really...