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From the opening crash of the Kyrie to the contrapuntal splendors of the Sanctus and the flowing tranquillity of the Agnus Dei, choir, soloists and instrumentalists did themselves proud last week, mightily impressed visiting critics with the musical authority of Director Jones. As for Ifor Jones, he has made no secret of his ambition to do in Bethlehem what Leopold Stokowski did in Philadelphia. Stokowski was also a church organist before he took over the Philadelphia Orchestra...
...ordinary of the Roman Catholic Mass consists of five parts: the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus and Agnus Dei. The Lutheran service uses only the first...
...examining the exhibited printings, it is possible to trace the development of music printing. In the first fifty years after printing was invented, from 1450 to 1500, no effective system was discovered for writing notes; but, in 1503, Ottavino dei Petrucci contrived movable type of sufficient accuracy to cope with the demands of the elaborate new "florid song," or counterpoint. There is shown a unique selection of Petrucci's editions, which required separate impressions for letters, staffs, and notes...
...preparing this work. The attacks were clean, the tone was pure, and there was plenty of body in the choral sections. Although the orchestra occasionally became a bit indefinite in its playing of the Gloria and the Credo, it redeemed itself gloriously in the Sanctus and the Agnus Dei. The soloists on the whole sang well and with feeling...
...spent an hour or so in Keats' room (which is next to Severn's). On the one side it overlooks the majestic staircase of the "Trinita Dei Monti" and on the other the Piazza and the Fountain. Immediately below is a charming outdoor flower nook owned by a jolly old Italian and you can call from Keat's window and he will bring you up a rose; and if he likes you he may give you one for "the Signore" free. Without superstition I think nowhere in Rome have I seen flowers so fresh and so seemingly content...