Word: texts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Today, his works, with few exceptions, are praised but unperformed, the D minor Requiem being a case in point. It contains moments of great beauty, and dramatic power; but these are moments only, and the total impression of the work is that of formless wandering, held together by the text rather than any musical coherence...
...Play of Daniel (New York Pro Musica; Decca). In a fascinating excursion into the Middle Ages, the nation's most avid collectors of musical antiquities present an early church musical drama in the original Latin text. The vocal parts suggest everything from Gregorian chant to folk song, the orchestra includes such authentic curiosities as a rebec, a vielle and a minstrel's harp. The result is a sound as finely jeweled, as warmly colored, and often as moving as an expanse of stained glass...
...Vladimir learns that the mysterious Godot has a white beard, and whispers "Christ have mercy upon us." In the recent all Negro production of Godot, Pozzo, who has just left the stage, has a white beard; Hartman's Pozzo does not. Beckett's text admits both devices, and both are effective...
...last year, in which forty-eight of the machines' disks replaced the textbooks, the average time spent at the machines to complete the forty-eight disks (equivalent to nearly a whole semester's reading) was about fourteen and a half hours. Comprehension did not suffer. Eventually the text was read too, for comparative purposes. To the question, "In comparing work on the machine with studying the text, I felt that with the same time and effort," thirty-two per cent of the students said that they had learned "much more" on the machine, and forty-six per cent said they...
...feast day commemorating the consecration of Roman Catholicism's mother church,*the slender Jesuit, delivering his maiden sermon to worshipers (mostly English-speaking) at Rome's Church of San Silvestro in Capite, had a text from St. Matthew ("Thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my church") and a theme that father might well approve: the need for unity among Christians. The preacher: the Rev. Avery Dulles, S.J., 39, second son of Presbyterian John Foster Dulles...