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...Vivaldi (circa 1678-1740) appeared on a concert program at all, it was usually linked by a hyphen to the name of Bach, who transcribed a goodly number of Vivaldi's works. Little was known about Venetian Vivaldi himself. The main facts: 1) he was a red-haired priest who had to stop saying Mass because of his choking attacks of asthma, 2) he traveled all over Europe as a violinist, and 3) he was "feeble and sick, yet lively as gunfire...
...since more Vivaldi scores have been discovered (latest count: 409 instrumental concerti, 136 pieces for chamber ensembles, 54 sacred choral works and 46 operas), the vigorous contrapuntal music of the red-haired priest is enjoying a boom...
Notre Dame will have a good deal to remember him for-a kindly priest who could scarcely take ten steps along his campus without stopping to chat with as many students. Between morning Mass at 5 and bedtime at midnight (sometimes after a quick rubber of bridge), he seemed to have time for everyone. He also had time to give Notre Dame one of the most prosperous and productive administrations it had had in all its 110-year history...
...wavering Communist assigned to investigate Kral quits the party. A liberal newspaperman, fortified by Kral's friendship, gains courage to become an underground agent for democracy. A Roman Catholic priest goes to prison, braced by the thought of Kral. In short, though Krai is never seen doing or saying anything (and is never explicitly granted or denied a passport), he becomes a symbol transcending ideologies...
Neither saint nor leader, Kral, as the priest says, is "a volunteer in the service of Love." Such a man, merely by being alive, becomes an intolerable challenge to the totalitarian state...