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Preliminaries consisted of two rounds held in the Concert Hall of the Brussels Conservatoire Royal de Musique. First round: 1) a major composition by Johann Sebastian Bach; 2) Scarlatti's Sonata No. 461 in D Major; 3) a sonata chosen by the candidate. When the first round was over, twelve nations, including the U. S., had bitten the dust. The judges were wiping their foreheads, professional critics were well wilted. But stately, sad-eyed Queen Elisabeth, in her royal box, had listened unflinchingly to 88 consecutive performances of Scarlatti's Sonata. Among the 19 survivors of Round...
...Henry Ernest Sigerist, included a "Frottola" by 16th-century Composer Marchetto Cara, written to help cure the Marchese of Mantua of syphilis; a piece played in the 17th Century to cure tarantism, popularly believed to be caused by the bite of a tarantula; hymnlike music originally addressed to St. Sebastian, who was believed to protect the faithful against the plague...
Greatest composer of organ music who ever lived was portly, quick-fingered 18th-Century Johann Sebastian Bach. His 30-odd organ fugues and numerous choral preludes and sonatas are still regarded as the organist's Bible. But if Bach walked into a present-day church while his music was being played, he would hardly recognize...
...death on rattlesnakes, and tall tales are told of its prowess: that it traps its victim in a ring of cactus, hops in and out, pecking holes in the snake's hide, then plants cactus barbs in the wounds until the rattler is as dead as St. Sebastian...
...capital of Loyalist Spain was recently moved to (1 Madrid, 2 Valencia, 3 Barcelona, 4 Toledo, 5 San Sebastian...