Word: saints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bach's knuckle-busting G Minor Sonata, is a test for any violinist. Violinist Oistrakh seemed to anticipate it with both distaste and fear and played as if to get it over with. It was, however, the evening's only disappointment. After works by Prokofiev, Szymanowski and Saint-Saëns, the audience dissolved in cheers...
...Vatican recently congratulated him for putting "your science and your zeal at the service of the Catholic cause." In 1949 Pope Pius XII made him a Commander in the Order of Saint Gregory the Great (he promoted him to the order's Grand Croix last fortnight), and frequently sends him a fan letter...
...champagne. Instead, at 29. he returned to the church, joined the Trappists, then decided that the Trappist austerities were not strict enough. He went to Nazareth where he became a handyman, living in harsh poverty, with fasting and prayer. His superiors were soon treating him as a living saint. Ordained (1901), Foucauld went to live among the Arabs of North Africa, who respected him as a holy...
...temperament. Germany's Wagnerian Tenor Hans Beirer is not ordinarily temperamental, but at one rehearsal he went into a pet and refused to sing until somebody brought a couch on stage for him to lie on. Hungarian Sandor Konya, rehearsing for the German premiere of Menotti's Saint of Bleecker Street, was scheduled to pick up a knife to stab. When it turned up missing, he flew into a rage and took a walk. It was replaced, but another singer, all unawares, took the replacement knife to peel an orange. This time Kenya's curse-punctuated rage...
...Saint Peter, don't you call me, 'cause...