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Adams has studied with Nadia Boulanger, world-renowned French musician, and Frederick Prausnitz, former conductor of the New England Couservatory Orchestra...
ELLIOTT CARTER: DOUBLE CONCERTO (Columbia). This terse, intensely cerebral score creates its stereophonic effect across the expanse of a normal concert stage, as two small orchestras, one centered around a harpsichord and the other around a piano-but both conducted by Frederik Prausnitz -toss questions and answers back and forth on some unnamed, obviously serious topic. The most striking musical effect is a slow, undulating, ill-tempered growl from the percussion toward the end of the piece that seems to sweep back and forth from one group to the other, murmuring imprecations at both...
Since then, with interruptions caused by war with Egypt and lack of funds. Archaeologist Prausnitz. 34. has uncovered the floor of a large church, part of what used to be a busy port town, probably called Nea Come in the days of Emperor Constantine. Christians broke their journey there on the road from Tyre to Caesarea...
...addition to the black, white and red mosaic, there are wall frescoes, lamps, chancel rails and a whole system of locks. Prausnitz dates the church in the 4th century. One clue: the liberal use of the cross on the floor mosaics, a practice that the church prohibited A.D. 427 on the ground that the feet of worshipers profaned the sacred symbol. A second indication is the floor plan-a long rectangle in the manner of 4th century Roman temples. Definite dating must wait upon other scholars and future excavations...
What had happened to this once great church that may have echoed to Christian prayers when Augustine was Bishop of Hippo? Prausnitz theorizes that it was probably sacked by Persian King Chosroes I in his 6th century invasion of Syria. Then the winds blew, and the sand swept over the bright mosaic...