Word: bonaventura
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...compose it. In the small, baldheaded, intense figure of Henze, they confront a man whose intricately structured atonal writing has placed him in the first rank of European composers (TIME, May 24, 1963). "We give the composer and the performer the greatest possible contact," says Mario di Bonaventura, the Dartmouth music professor who directs the program. "It gives the performers an edge of confidence. They can always say, 'I played with Henze, and there's no doubt that I know how to play this...
...Francis of Assisi made the first crèche-or so his loyal biographer, St. Bonaventura, says-and it was a double success. The tableau lent a drama to the saint's sermon on Christmas Eve in 1223, and the hay later "proved a marvellous remedy for sick beasts and a prophylactic against divers other plagues.'' Since then, thousands and thousands of creches have been made, some commissioned by great lords, some modeled after master paintings, some encrusted with jewels, and some even designed to be wound up and set moving. But the most appealing creches...
...week to receive from Pope John their red hats, symbolic of their elevation to the College of Cardinals. Besides their rank and faith, the new cardinals had something else in common: the same tailor. Every stitch of their elaborate garments, from scarlet silk stockings to matching skullcap, came from Bonaventura Gammarelli, 61, the most prestigious name in the Roman Catholic cloak and soutane trade. From his small shop in the shadow of Rome's ancient Pantheon, Gammarelli sends out the robes and capes to Catholic clergy the world over; New York's Cardinal Spellman is a regular customer...
...Gammarelli family has been sewing for the Catholic clergy ever since Bonaventura's great-great-grandfather opened a shop in Rome in 1798 to make outfits for Rome's many priests. Gammarelli still likes to serve curates as well as princes of the church, is just as pleased over selling a cassock at $40 as a cardinal's attire for $2,000. It is only good business, since many of his customers get ahead. "Over 70% of the cardinals we now serve," he says, "started coming to us when they were only monsignori...
...difficult to cut without anyone specific in mind," says Gammarelli. A shrewd papal handicapper, he felt that in case of a deadlock the compromise candidate might be an old customer of his, Venice's Cardinal Roncalli, and cut the garments for the large man with him in mind. Bonaventura's hunch was right: when Pope John XXIII appeared on the balcony overlooking St. Peter's Square to give his first public blessing, he was dressed in the perfectly fitting white soutane Gammarelli had made...