Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says, that irresistibly drew her to "the divine serenity of Mozart, which is so close to the bosom of God. I discovered the purity and chastity of his way, the seductive grace, the incredible sweetness." The hardest part, she explains, was taming her "uncivilized Hungarian temperament, cutting back all passion, all effusiveness, all exaggeration, which does not go well with Mozart." Steeped in religious philosophy, she is a radiant, darkly handsome woman who fortifies her self with yoga exercises learned from Violinist Yehudi Menuhin's guru in India, and daily rations of a syrupy mixture of ground-up acorns...
...Venice's San Giorgio church, where applause is forbidden, clergy and audience alike burst into a spontaneous ovation that one priest excused as "homage our Lord would surely want us to pay." The acclaim was neither for a renowned solo ist nor an old master, but for the Passion and Death of Jesus Christ According to St. Luke by Polish Composer Krzysztof Penderecki, Europe's most impressive new voice in modern music...
Austerely contemporary in sound, Penderecki's two-hour oratorio draws on a wide musical spectrum ranging from pious Gregorian chants to the dry linearity of the twelve-tone school. In a fresh departure from the Passions of Bach and Telemann, his chorus participates as well as comments, punctuating Christ's ascent to Calvary with hisses, shouts and mocking laughter, while the music quavers and sighs in sympathetic counterpoint. With the lean, clean strokes of a fencer, Penderecki slices to the heart of the Passion, revealing through the intolerance shown to one man the tragedy...
Saws & Sirens. Passion is Penderecki's latest and most ambitious work. Now 33, he leapt into prominence seven years ago when he anonymously entered three compositions in a competition sponsored by the Polish Composer's Association -and walked off with first, second and third prizes. The first performances of his music in Poland were attended by hard-core traditionalists who touched off riots with whistles and rattles. Penderecki merely answered with some noisemakers of his own, scored one piece for woodwinds, musical saws, files, sirens, typewriters and electric bells, not to ignore the percussionist whose work entailed assaulting...
Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife has placed the whooping crane on its "Rare and Endangered" list and is studying ways of breeding it in captivity. Mrs. McNulty, a freelance writer and the widow of Novelist John McNulty (Third Avenue, New York), avoids polemics but not passion as she examines the history of human indifference and hostility that conspired for so long against the whooping crane. She adds suspense to the story, too, as she traces the efforts of conservationists to locate the big birds' nesting regions in the Canadian far north and provide them with wintering grounds...