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...Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was having trouble on another stage. He collaborated on a Swedish translation of esoteric U.S. Writer Djuna Barnes's allusive verse play, The Antiphon, which opened in Stockholm. Critics thought the play largely unintelligible, though one exonerated Hammarskjold, explaining that the translation job was "overwhelmingly difficult-almost like bringing order to the Congo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 3, 1961 | 3/3/1961 | See Source »

...Behaviour (1955), with piano obbligato, bore up well on second hearing. Written in a crisp, clean Irving Fine manner, it took its text from some amusing rules for children found in a 1787 church in Williamsburg, Virginia. The concert, like the telecast, ended with Vaughan Williams' robust and lusty antiphon Let all the World in Every Corner Sing...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Summer School Chours | 8/16/1956 | See Source »

...Rash. When De Gasperi outlined the points of his new government's program in the Chamber of Deputies, Communist deputies shrilled a dissenting antiphon. The Premier said that he would maintain law & order; they shouted: "How many innocent workers have been murdered? " De Gasperi pledged cooperation with ERP; the Communists screamed "Imperialism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Push & Suggest | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

...choruses united again for the final number, "Let All the World in Every Corner Sing", and Antiphon by Vaughn Williams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSIC BOX | 8/31/1943 | See Source »

Cream of the collection is a beautifully preserved 16th Dutch Antiphon, or church chorus, with fine illumination and interesting musical notation. Other items are a complete set of the first edition of Walter Scott's writings, probably the only one existing; one of the three inscribed books by Thomas Hardy; Edmund Gosse's autographed set of Keats; first edition; a unique and beautifully bound set of Mark Twain with some of the original manuscript inserted; a set of Shaw's works, all autographed, and unequalled for its completeness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RARE BOOKS SHOWING AT DUNSTER BOOKSHOP | 2/28/1931 | See Source »

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