Word: montserrat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over again with the more placid sonorities of the 18th century. That interest in turn has sent students burrowing through monastery attics, museums and castles in search of long-lost scores. One of the more esoteric recent finds has come from the Escolanía (music school) of Montserrat in Spain, where California-born Pianist Frederick Marvin unearthed a hoard of keyboard sonatas by Padre Antonio Soler, 18th century Spain's only great instrumental composer. Last week, in a recital at Manhattan's Town Hall, Pianist Marvin put a few samples of his find on display...
...Valencia, Montserrat and Genoa also claim to possess the Holy Grail, but Genoa claims that the cup there was not only used at the Last Supper but was originally given by the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon...
Ignatius gave his fine clothes to a beggar, placed his sword and dagger on the altar of the Virgin at Montserrat. and retired for eleven months to the caves of Manresa to train for God's service as he had once trained for the duke's. He disciplined his body with torture and fasting, then turned to his mind, bending it to his will according to a self-imposed manual of mental arms. Out of this arduous retreat came the famed Spiritual Exercises, the course of disciplined mysticism that all Jesuits must undergo in a concentrated form...
...honor Simon Bolivar, Bogota's Teatro Colon scheduled a new French play about El Libertador's fight for freedom, entitled Montserrat. The Ministry of Education gave its blessing; President Laure-ano Gomez himself went to the opening-night performance...
...Montserrat, which enjoyed a brief Broadway run last year in an English adaptation by Lillian Hellman, hammers hard against the brutal Spanish tyranny that Bolivar battled to overthrow. (Sample: "You live under the domination of men who are ferocious and pitiless. Do you have no pride? Do you not want to rebel against assassins?") Members of the audience, all of whom had been living for 18 months under a state of siege imposed by the Conservative government, loudly applauded every reference to liberty. One man even rose and shouted, "Viva la libertad...