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Salvator Arnita, who heads the music department at the American University in Beirut, Lebanon, is one student who considers his own situation a special case. An organist and composer who has previously made several European trips, Arnita hopes to pick up additional experience by auditing the courses of several music professors...
...represented a lifetime devoted to religious themes−all depicted in the comfortable everyday terms of barnyards, country lanes and the River Thames around Painter Spencer's small native Berkshire village of Cookham (pop. 5,900) 27 miles west of London. Burning Bush. The son of a church organist Spencer got his training at London's Slade School of Fine Art, served as a medical corpsman and infantry soldier in World War I before returning to Cookham. It was in Cookham that Spencer had his day of revelation: "Quite suddenly I became aware that everything was full...
Bach: Toccata in D Minor (E. Power Biggs; Columbia). An organ tour of Europe in which- Organist Biggs plays the same piece on 14 instruments, the oldest dating from the 15th century (Ltübeck, Germany), the newest from last year (Royal Festival Hall, London). Some of them were undoubtedly used by old Virtuoso Bach himself. Some of the organs are scintillant and percussive, some hoarse with archaic, buzzing tone; some are housed in churches where the echo lasts so long that the sound takes on a luminous vagueness...
...voice of the cantor. For centuries, cantors have sung such sacred songs as the mournful El Molay Rachamim ("O, God, full of compassion . . . grant perfect rest unto the souls of our dear ones"), or the joyful Kiddush ("We praise Thee, O God, and thank Thee . . ."). Unlike the choirmaster or organist in a Christian church, the cantor (although not ordained) holds a semisacred office; the prayers he sings are an integral part of the service, and he must be trained in Jewish ritual...
...there were very few U.S. musical visitors. But since ANTA (American National Theater and Academy) started an international exchange program (TIME, June 6), several top U.S. artists, e.g., the Metropolitan Opera's Mezzo-Soprano Blanche Thebom and the Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet, have made the trip. Last week Organist E. Power Biggs was exceptionally well received, and a septet of first chair men from the Boston Symphony arrived for joint concerts and some on its own. Next month another group of Russian artists will arrive, but next fall Icelanders expect to hear U.S. Violinist Ruggiero Ricci, Pianist Julius Katchen, Soprano...