Word: siena
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...Vendetta. Three months ago, during Italy's municipal elections, the Communists staged a big rally in the square. Don Cesare chose this moment to toll his bells in celebration of a three-day vigil for St. Catherine of Siena. The deafening tones of the tocsin scattered the Red audience like autumn leaves. Three days later, the biggest bell disappeared, skillfully and silently lowered by pulleys from its 75-ft. belfry. "It wasn't for the value of the bell that they stole it," said Don Cesare, eying the gaping space in his bell tower. "It was done...
Debussy (Marisa Regules, pianist; Esoteric). Argentine Pianist Regules applies her precise and prodigious technique to six works by the great impressionist and to the special problems posed by the little Siena pianoforte (TIME, Aug. 29). The result is something special. The sound is not quite so singing as Debussy intended, yet its harplike notes are not entirely out of character...
...will sing at the Holland festival June 17, Amsterdam, 19; Heerlen, 20; Brussels, 22; Tours, 23; Orleans, 24; Paris, 26; Florence, 28; Siena...
This year it will open its continental concert series with a performance for the Holland Festival at the Hague, then will sing in Belgium and Paris. Concerts are also arranged for Tours and Orleans in France, Siena and Perugia in Italy, Freiburg and Munich in Germany, Cambridge and Buckingham in England...
...Ph.D., and a year later was called to Manhattan. There he performed a bewildering array of duties as pastor and prior of St. Catherine of Siena Church, national director of the Holy Name Society, editor of the Holy Name Journal, national director of the Third Order of St. Dominic, founder-editor of the Torch. He not only could get along on five hours of sleep, but he also developed a flair for handling his delinquent parishioners. On Saturday nights he would make the rounds of the neighborhood bars, eye a backslider and say: "Shouldn't you go to confession...