Word: bloch
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Herbert Bloch, Pope Professor of Latin Language and Literature, said yesterday that though he was most concerned with the human suffering caused by the quake, he was also worried about possible damage to Roman structures in Benevento...
...Bloch agreed that past events had already damaged many of the region's art treasures. In 1944, the American army "started their invasion of Italy in Salerno," Bloch said, adding that "mankind has done more to destroy irreplaceable art than any natural disaster...
...music on the other side, by two recent Swiss-born composers, Ernest Bloch (1880-1959) and Frank Martin (1890-1974), makes this disk welcome. Bloch's oeuvre contains about a dozen works of avowedly Jewish flavor, the most famous being the Schelomo rhapsody for cello and orchestra (1915). The last of the Jewish works was a set of five Pieces Hebraiques (1951), for viola and piano, three of which Bloch orchestrated the next year under the title Suite Hebraique. The Thompson disk is the only current recording with the revised scoring. Though not from Bloch's top drawer, the work...
...recruited to amplify the notion into a novel, and then the book is converted to celluloid. The trend has become widespread: Simon & Schuster Editor David Obst recently moved his offices to Hollywood, and Bantam Books has established a film-production company in Los Angeles. Its acquisitions editor Charles Bloch regards the cinema-literary process as "a sophisticated methodology of people who have an interest in both books and movies so that they can put two and two together and get five...