Word: sainte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...composer who has come closest to being America's Verdi or Puccini. Gian-Carlo Menotti. last week took his Saint of Bleecker Street (TIME. Jan. 10) to Milan's great La Scala. Italian-born Composer Menotti, who has lived in the U.S. for 27 years, got a real gala-Scala panning from Italian critics. Wrote Rome's Giornale d'Italia: "There is not an idea, not a melody, not a note which is not either closely or distantly attributable to someone else ... If this is what it means to write opera, let's not talk...
...Edward Randolph Welles, Bishop of West Missouri, pointed out to the 66th annual convention of his diocese in Carthage that for Christianity's first thousand years or so, the making of a saint was a purely local matter, left in the hands of the bishop. In the Roman Catholic Church, bishops lost this right in 1634, a century after the Reformation.* It would be wise and welcome, thought Bishop Welles, to revive this practice, and he suggested a commission to study the "heroic sanctity" of two Missouri candidates for canonization...
Whether or not Bishops Kemper and Tuttle are worthy of sainthood, many a conscientious Episcopalian doubts the practicality of Bishop Welles's suggestion. Since the Reformation, the Anglican Communion has largely contented itself with the ancient saints of the church calendar. The most famous exception was King Charles I, charged with treason and beheaded by a provisional government under Cromwell in 1649. After the Resto ration the Church of England acclaimed him as a martyr for his unwillingness to renounce the Anglican faith, officially put his feast into the calendar of saints.-Nearest thing to a U.S. Episcopal saint...
...Roof; history, Paul Horgan's Great River, The Rio Grande in North American History; biography, New York Times Washington Correspondent William S. White's The Taft Story; poetry, The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens; music, Gian-Carlo Menotti's The Saint of Blceker Street...
...Joan Symphony by Norman Dello Joio. Here they showed a substantial and well-balanced orchestral tone; although occasionally rough, at its best it was rich and exciting. The symphony is an outstanding American work. The three movements follow the story of Joan of Arc as Maid, Warrior, and Saint. The dramatic intent of the music is emphasized by an instrumentation including bass drum, kettle drums, snare drum, cymbals, and bells. The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra gave it a reading that clearly showed the group's improvement. We can thank Attilio Poto for the new vitality in the orchestra...