Word: cherubim
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unto one John Kostva, Polish senator and Lord of Zakroczym was born a manchild, the second of seven babes. Six had the innocent mien common to all infants, but Stanislas' round countenance shone with a piety known only to cherubim and seraphim. He grew up, studied at Vienna, there early displayed beatific proficiency. Said his brother Paul: "He devoted himself to spiritual things so completely that he frequently became unconscious. . . . This happened at home to my brother when he was seated at the table. . . ." Then Paul, vexed, maltreated Stanislas who answered, "Your rough treatment will end in my going...
...complete program is as follows: Creator alme siderum--Puer natus est nobis--Adoro to devotee Allegrl Miscrere Allegrl Sacerdotes Domini Byrd Cherubim Song Rachmaninov Chorus of Bacchantes, from "Philemon and Baucis" Gounod Canzonet and Ballet--I Go Before, My Darling Morley On the Plains, Fairy Trains Weelkes Choral Hymns from the Rig-Veda Hymn to Agni--Hymn to Indra--Hymn to Manas Holst Coronation Scene, from "Boris Godounov" Moussorgsky Four Folk Songs The Galway Piper Gute Nacht The reapers' Song Turn Ye to Me Drake's Drum Coleridge-Taylor Love Songs Brahms Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite from "Samson...
Good News From Heav'n from the "Christmas Oratorio' Bach Miserere Allegri Cherubim Song Rachmaninov Cavalier Song Stanford Along the Garden Ways Heilman Chant de Guerre Schmitt (Soloist: Joseph Lautner '21) Chorus of Bacchantes, from Philemon and Baucis" Gounod Moonland Melartin Coronation Scene, from "Boris Godounov" Moussorgsky Intermission Four Folk Songs: The Galway Piper Gute Nacht Reaper's Song Turn Ye to Me (Soloist: C. R. Gordon II/) Drake's Drum Coleridge-Taylor Love Songs: Brahms Not so Close to Me A Tremor's in the Branches Nightingale, Thy Sweetest Song From You Hills the Torrent Speeds Secret Nook...
...find an interesting tour-de-force, men of letters a most scholarly little tract. And the end? Clothes, like the appendix, are a useless relic of evolution. For modesty, for protection, for display, we dress. These purposes are outworn. The new man will be naked as Heaven's cherubim; he will build towers to which the Spire of Salisbury were but a wand...
...Song" and the exultant faith of "Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones" were rendered with accurate energy. "De Profundis", on the other hand was made to seem hollow and perfunctory by the hurried staccato delivery of the words. There was more theatricality than feeling in the interpretation. Rachmaninoff's "Cherubim Song", too, became a meaningless jumble of vocal effects, in which one could not see the forest for the trees...