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There are no records later than 1789, when the last de Brienne, who was Louis the Sixteenth's Finance Minister, left the ministry, and most of the collection was thought to have been lost until recently...
Malcolm Holmes will conduct the Wellesley College Orchestra in a concert at Paine Hall tonight. The program consists of rarely played music dating from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries and opens with Studentenmusik Suite No. 2 by Johann Rosemuller (1620-1634). Also to be heard are Bach's Concerto for two violins in D minor; Gluck's Sinfonia to the ballet-pantomime, "Don Juan"; Bach's Cantata No. 202, "Weichet nur, betruebte Schatten"; Two Instrumental Pieces by King Henry VIII; and Gretry's Overture to "Le Rival Confident." The music is certainly unusually interesting and gives further proof...
Another insight into Persian painting may be gained from a portrait signed by the artist Aga Riza. This is dated about two and a half centuries later, from the end of the sixteenth century. Now there is no epic tale but a contemporary person, not an anonymous craftsman but a celebrated artist. Now it is studied delicacy of drawing, conscious rhythm of inner and outer line, but there is still the Persian abstraction. The body is without weight, a mere pattern of pleasing shapes of color, the pose is without stability...
Under the direction of Archibald T. Davidson '06, professor of music, the Appleton Chapel choir gave a half hour broadcast ever station WNAC yesterday as a feature of the Catholic Truth Hour. Another program of fifteenth and sixteenth century church music, including works by Byrd, Lotti, and Palestrina will be given next Sunday on the same broadcast...
...method of preventing the young men from following the dollar to war. If it can fulfill its utilitarian opportunities, the Church may well return to provide that civilizing unity which was its to give during the Middle Ages, which the profit motive supplied for the expanding capitalism of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, and which the League of Nations has failed to provide in our time...