Word: messiahs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rabbi Bernstein denies that the new attention Jews have come to pay to the figure of Jesus can ever lead to accepting him as the Messiah. The very idea of Messiahship, he says, is undergoing a change. Though the Orthodox still believe in a personal Messiah and pray for his coming each day, "a large segment of the liberal Jewish community has discarded the notion of a single messianic personality who is to save mankind ... In its place they affirm their faith in a messianic era which is to be achieved by the cooperative efforts of good...
...world wide Theosophist movement (present member ship: 150,000). In 1909 she adopted a twelveyear- old Indian orphan boy, Jiddu Krishnamurti, whom she declared to be a reincarnation of Christ. Today, having renounced his divinity, he is an itinerant lecturer on mystic subjects, some times known as "the messiah in plus fours." In 1929 Mrs. Besant tried to start a Theosophist colony at her Happy Valley ranch in California, to breed super-Americans. She said the Califor nia climate favored such an experiment, but she eventually gave it up. Like all Theosophists, she believed that she had several bodies which...
...features the Glee Club singing Bach's Magnificat. Two of the soloists for this performance will be Eunice Alberts, contralto, who opened and closed last summer at Tanglewood with Serge Koussevitsky, and Paul Tibbetts, who sung the bass role in the past two Orchestra-Glee Club performances of the Messiah...
...take over the Chicago Symphony (TIME, Jan. 9). After six months of negotiation, Sir Malcolm had accepted on condition that he could spend half his time free-lancing at home & abroad and conducting the roof-raising choral concerts which are his specialty (he has recorded both Handel's Messiah and Mendelssohn's Elijah for Columbia...
...five concerts, he offered them dumpling-heavy portions of the music he loves best: Bach, Bruckner, Mahler Mozart, Verdi (the Requiem), Wagner. On the last night, the audience in the Music Hall stood up to close the festival by roaring out the "Hallelujah Chorus" from Handel's Messiah...