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...from Prison, completed for Leo X in 1514, surrounds the top of a window overlooking a Vatican garden, and, until the window was blocked off (see cut), the picture looked dark by contrast with the light flooding in. Raphael took advantage of this apparent difficulty by making the saving angel the picture's chief vehicle of light. The angel comes as a refulgent minister of grace in darkness, dimly perceived, yet perfect...
Revolutionary War. Soldiers everywhere know that the Army that Lem Lemnitzer will take over has already plunged into a period of basic changes. "It's a damned revolution,'' said a head-shaking first sergeant on San Francisco's Angel Island. Samples of the revolution: MISSILES IN THE SUBURBS...
Capriccio had its premiere in the war-scarred Munich of 1942 and has only rarely been seen outside since. Now in a complete recording (Angel, 3 LPs) for the first time, it proves to be one of Strauss's most fascinating works. Too static for the stage, it is studded with passages of surpassing orchestral and vocal beauty: the sweetly melancholy string sextet that serves as an overture; the delicately interlaced trio in which Musician, Poet and Countess comment on the Poet's sonnet; the Countess' hushed mirror monologue at the close, with its spun-silver vocal...
...Gethsemane came the cue: "He turned to his disciples and they were sleeping"; at this point the head of the papier-mache figure of Christ slowly turned. "Where were the multitudes and sick he had healed?" intoned the narrator, and Christ's head began to rise. "And an angel appeared," said the voice. Suddenly a spotlight flashed on to catch a daub of silicone paint on one of the figure's lower eyelids, to give the illusion of a glistening tear. The show reached its smash climax with the sudden illumination of six papier-mache choirboys singing...
...Many Books? As of this week, the boys were mum about their financial backing, but one known angel is Investor Richard Ernst, a former Knopf employee (in the sales department) who is married to Department Store Heiress Susan Bloomingdale. As for father Knopf, 66, he had no comment on his son's exodus. A publisher who has often complained that the trade is turning out far too many books, Knopf Sr. only said: "There have always been new firms, and I guess this will be a good one," As for Pat, 41, he seemed...