Word: titus
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Plans called for a Midsummer Music Festival, but New Yorkers have seldom been offered music of such sustained seriousness even in the dead of winter. The programs ranged from La Clemenza di Tito (The Mercy of Titus), a rarely performed opera composed in the last year of Mozart's life, to concerti grossi by Handel, Vivaldi and Samuel Barber, to Bach's B Minor Mass and Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms. Skep tics said tickets would go begging. In stead, knowledgeable audiences have kept Philharmonic Hall practically full. The programs' appeal, says Festival Administrator Jay Hoffman...
...stormiest sessions that Commons had seen in years, the Prime Minister returned to the attack by suggesting that the press and Opposition leaders had tried to "destroy private reputations from motives either of spite or gain." He concluded with a pious warning against "the spirit of Titus Oates* and Senator McCarthy...
Next fall, he takes over the Titus Street professorship of ecclesiastical history at Yale...
...other Nazi victim was Carmelite Father Titus Brandsma, a Dutch-born journalist famed for his prewar anti-German writings who was captured by Nazi troops after The Netherlands surrendered in 1940. Brandsma refused to retract his anti-Nazi views, died "protecting Christianity against National Socialism" in a Dachau gas chamber...
...TITUS La Mesa, Calif...