Word: scythian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marilyn Horne was back on stage with Soprano Sutherland in the Boston Opera's production of Rossini's Semiramide. This time there was no overlooking her. For one thing, she was five months pregnant and singing the hero's role of Arsace, an officer in the Scythian army, complete with beard and free-flowing robes. For another, she sang magnificently...
...century A.D. The looters were after gold, and the tombs were rich in that. Being a practical man, Czar Peter simply gave orders that the looters be looted in turn. Soon plaques and buckles were pouring into the imperial coffers. Thus began the world's greatest collection of Scythian art, now in the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad...
Those Who Must Die. Almost every ancient tribe had a bloody custom or two, but the Scythians seemed to combine them all. They not only scalped their fallen foes but also drank their blood. A man who slew an enemy in the sight of the king was allowed to keep his victim's skull as a drinking bowl. When the king pronounced the death penalty on a person, he also automatically condemned to death all of the man's male relatives. Scythian kings never died alone. The head groom, the head cupbearer, the head cook and at least...
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 4 (the Philadelphia Orchestra, under Eugene Ormandy; Columbia). A rare LP recording of one of the early Prokofiev symphonies all but forgotten in Western concert halls. The composer here is less acerbic, more expansive than in the Scythian Suite or Love for Three Oranges, and the score is curiously uneven, mingling occasional film-score banalities with splendid rhythmic inventions...