Word: passional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next Sunday and Monday, April 26 and 27, Dr. Serge Koussevitzky is to conduct two performances of Bach's renowned St. Matthew Passion, with the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and six noted soloists filling the respective parts. The work is of unusual length, and, as with the Mass in B minor, will be given in two sections, one in the afternoon and one in the evening of each of the two days. Both performances will take place at Symphony Hall in Boston...
...rabbi, a Catholic priest and a Methodist minister jointly conducted Holy Week services designed to allay the widespread Christian conviction that Jews alone were responsible for crucifying Jesus Christ. C. Near Albuquerque, N. Mex. on Good Friday, Los Hermanos Penitentes re-enacted their bloody version of Christ's Passion, with increased attention from sightseers and the Press (TIME, March 9). C. In Quebec, Good Friday was celebrated as many Catholics believe it should be everywhere. By proclamation, Mayor J. E. Gregoire ordered all theatres, public buildings, shops closed for the day. At 4 p. m. citizens were directed...
...move was to the Promised Land. Mrs. Howard was a philosopher with a weak heart. Julian, the only child, was a level-headed youngster who saw through his father's grown-up dignity to the helpless human being behind it. Mr. Howard, full of the intellectual's passion for the land, and a small pocketful of savings, was no match for the hard-headed natives. They sold him worthless stock and too-expensive machinery; he was soon the laughingstock of the countryside...
...Glee Club's offering at the concerts will be Bach's monumental "St. Matthew's Passion," a work which is so long that it is always split into two parts, the first of which is sung before dinner. Refreshed, the Club will then return to complete the second two hour section of Bach's magnum opus...
...Maundy Thursday Pius XI was to join his Court & Cardinals in a two-hour service in the Sistine and Pauline chapels, culminating when a consecrated Host, in a priceless ancient chalice of rock crystal studded with precious stones and etched with 13 scenes of the Passion of Our Lord, is placed on Solemn Exposition. On Good Friday, day of mourning, the Pope would neither wear his episcopal ring nor bless those who worshipped with him. In solemn procession he would return to the Pauline chapel, then bear the Host back to the Sistine chapel for the Mass of the Presanctified...