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...clock one morning last week a jostling crowd-tourists, sailors and townspeople, elbow to elbow with priests and nuns-had swarmed into the 13th century Cathedral of San Gennaro in Naples. Promptly on the hour, a mustached monsignor walked slowly to a side altar, carrying a glass-windowed silver reliquary containing two glass vials partly filled with a dark, solid, opaque substance. As the priest turned the reliquary around and around before the golden-faced bust of St. Januarius, Naples' patron saint, onlookers prayed: "Come and grant us your favor, 0 beautiful saint, great champion of Jesus Christ...
Scored for Tar. The Minneapolis will also première Cowell's Persian Set, a haunting, eastern-flavored piece originally scored for twelve instruments, including the three-stringed Persian tar. Cowell was also able, in the past year, to work on a 13th symphony, write a two-movement piece with a "Japanese feel" titled Ongaku (music), and compose, on commission, a national anthem for the new state of Malay (it was rejected, along with entries by Benjamin Britten and others, in favor of a Malayan folk tune named Bright Moonlight...
...tenth day they were put on intensive electroshock treatment-usually one treatment daily, and often receiving four or five shocks in two to three minutes-far more intensive than previously tried shock treatments. Said Dr. Cameron: "The rate is set so that complete depatterning is achieved between the 13th and 16th days, after about 30 shock treatments. Complete depatterning is maintained five to seven days...
...Sent his "very good wishes" to the people of Communist Poland on the 13th anniversary of the establishment of a provisional Communist government in Lublin after the Russian "liberation" of eastern Poland from the retreating Nazi armies in World...
...full chorus of 85 singers will present the annual chorus concert on Tuesday, August 13th in Sanders Theatre. Included in the program will be works by Vaughan-Williams, Brahms, and Randall Thompson...