Word: messiahs
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GOLGOTHA, Apr. 9, A.D. 30.-This bleak suburb of Jerusalem, scene of the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth last Friday, became the center of excited interest today. . . . Hordes of spectators, many of whom were present at the death of him who claimed to be the Jews' Messiah, roved curiously over Calvary Hill. They had come to view the wreckage left by the disastrous earthquakethat accompanied the prophet's last hours...
...spite of Handel's absolute preeminence as a choral writer, his works are today for the most part relegated to obscurity, except for the annual Christmas revival of the Messiah. Music exists only when it is performed. No matter how great a composer's genius, it is dead until it is concretely demonstrated...
This week, as Christendom celebrated what it dearly believed to be the 1,943rd anniversary of the birth of Jesus, the Jews of the world still awaited their promised Messiah, and the ingathering of them, the chosen people, in Palestine. Yet in the U. S., perhaps half of the Jews gave their friends Christmas presents, told their children about Santa Claus; some even put Christmas trees in their living rooms and wreaths in their windows. So widespread is their celebration - purely social - of the Christian feast, that few rabbis bother any more to inveigh against it. Indeed, one rabbi last...
This probably seems like a strange statement for Bach and Handel are almost in the old favors ite class. However, the popularity of Bach's keyboard music and Handel's Messiah has done as much to shut their other works off from the public as it has to make their names great. For example, of the Bach works which the Boston Symphony has done in the Friday and Saturday series them--two were arrangements of organ works and the other was the first performance in that series of the Sixth Brandcuburg Concerto...
...Nazarene has not one but three viewpoints. Part of it is an account of Jesus' career as seen by the Roman Governor of Jerusalem, the Ciliarch (or Hegemon) Cornelius. Part is told by one Jochanan, pupil of Rabbi Nicodemon, who was sympathetic to Jesus without believing Him the Messiah. By Author Asch's device, the Roman and the Jew were reincarnated in modern Poland, the one a crabbed and Jew-hating scholar, the other a young Jewish translator. Their association results in a third part of the book: a long, emotional fragment of a "lost Gospel" which...