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...these little operas will realize that it is only their peculiar hybrid form which has held them in relative obscurity. Somehow or other, grand opera as it grew up on the continent never clicked in England. Even after the Italian style of declamatory singing was assimilated in the seventeenth century, opera remained a blood brother of the masque from which it had sprung, never getting past the stage of a masque with incidental music. Venus and Adonis is such a masque: an elaborate little puppet opera, composed in 1685 as an offering to James II by John Blow, Master...
Educators view the present war with deep concern," said Dr. Mark A. May of Yale's Institute of Human Relations to a large audience in the Fogg Art Museum last night. The occasion of his speech was the seventeenth annual Inglis Lecture of the Graduate School of Education...
...Germanic Museum will open its fourth season of free organ recitals on Tuesday evening, November 26th, at 8:15, with a concert by Ernest White, distinguished organists of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, New York City. From a large repertory of seventeenth and eighteenth century music, Mr. White has chosen for his program works from rarely heard German and English composers, Handel and Bach, and the "Prelude, Fugue and Variation" by Cesar Franck...
Which are: first, second, and third, lack of variety. There is too much nineteenth-century music played, and not enough seventeenth and eighteenth. There is too much repeating, even within this limited field, of a stock routine of standard works, not enough probing into minor musical literature. It is true, of course, that classical and pre-classical music exists largely in small forms, unfit for the symphony orchestra. But there are over a hundred symphonics by Haydn, suites from Bach, Telemann, and Handel. Why should we be forced to listen to ten performances of the Tchaikowski Pathetique for every...
...Nobody Knows, The Book Nobody Knows). Barton, a born preacher and sloganeer, a superb luncheon-club speaker, son of a Tennessee clergyman, implemented his creed of service by fighting his way into Congress in 1938 as an amateur from Manhattan's only Republican district-the Silk-Stocking Seventeenth, compounded of Park Avenue and nearby slums...