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...language. Finally he reached his destination, Ang and F. Ang means Angling and F stands for Daniel B. Fearing, a former mayor of Newport who donated, in 1915, several thousand titles having to do with fish and fishing. "What a gold mine," thought Gridley, "everything is here. The sixteenth-century Ius Fluviaticum bound luxuriously in vellum with metal clasps and that Mexican masterwork, Piscicultura in Agua Dulce. To say nothing of Tricks That Take Fish and all fifteen editions of British Rural Sports." On a lower shelf he noticed two copies of Fish I Have Known by Arthur H. Beavan...
Harvard College figures in several recent Christmassy records. The renowned E. Power Biggs can be heard playing Twelve Noels by the eighteenth-century French composer, Louis Claude Daquin, on the reedy, mock-sixteenth-century Flentrop Organ in the Busch-Reisinger Museum of Germanic Culture (Columbia ML 5567). And the Harvard Glee Club has recorded on a loyal label a handsome election of the more worth while --Volume I (Cambridge Records CRS-401), for instance, includes Vaughan Williams arrangements of the Gloucestershire and Yorkshire Wassails, "Lo, How a Rose." Gustav Holst's Personent Hodie, the Sussex Carol and "The Holly...
...state visit to West Germany with a momentous confession. Speaking for once as a citizen rather than as the voice of France, Charles de Gaulle revealed that he himself, through "the grandfather of my maternal grandfather," a barber-surgeon who served in Napoleon's army, has been one-sixteenth German all these years...
Given a table, tuning fork, piles of music and the Sestetto Italiano Luca Marenzio one has a delightful evening of Italian madrigals from the late sixteenth century. Add Sanders Theatre and last night's smallish but enthusiastic audience, and Adriano Banchieri's madrigal comedy La Barca di Venezia per Podova becomes the absurd and absorbing musical work it has been for three and a half centuries...
Only skillful vocal ensembles singing in the contrapuntal style of the sixteenth century Italian madrigal can share the tone of the whole concert: fluid, flexible, continuous. And although occasionally their pitches wandered and attacks scattered, in their masterful moments the madrigal singers made a good case for a revival of the form...