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HAYDN: DIVERTIMENTI FOR BARYTON, VIOLA AND CELLO (Nonesuch). Because his patron, Prince Nicolaus Esterhazy, liked to play a hollow-necked, stringed instrument called the baryton, Haydn composed at least 125 divertimenti for it, of which five are exhumed by the Salzburger Baryton Trio. To many ears, the recording will be an eloquent argument for keeping the twangy viol locked in museums...
Shortest in Time. As is their custom, Vatican aides managed to find an appropriate symbolism in the date chosen for Paul's trip: it is the feast day of Francis of Assisi, patron saint of San Francisco where the U.N. was born. Although it will be the longest of Paul's flights in miles-4,273 each way, compared with 3,843 for his pilgrimage to India-the New York trip will be the shortest in time, largely because the Vatican Council will be in the midst of its fourth session. The Pope will arrive at Kennedy Airport...
...make it, finish like a champion is supposed to finish. Don't putt short, just tap it in and walk off like a thief.' " He did, and headed for New York, where his wife was giving birth to Anthony Marr−named after St. Anthony, the patron saint of the poor, the pregnant and the lost...
...ballet dancers, firebirds and blossoms banked like clouds in hot Midi colors that triumph over the surrounding Second Empire gilt moldings (TIME, Nov. 6). In the mural he painted the face of his old friend Malraux-the gesture of a Renaissance artist paying homage to his patron. But as a grateful adopted son of France, Chagall made a truly princely gesture: he presented the ceiling, a year's labor, to France as a gift. Without fanfare, Chagall often turns up at opera performances, whips out a spyglass to study his masterpiece furtively...
...What Negroes want more than anything else is to be treated as men," Silberman asserted, explaining, "Negro-white relations have always been structured in a patron-servant, father-child relation...