Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...church music by Giovanni Gabrieli (1557-1612) arranged for choir, some with instrumental accompaniment. Hindemith, a first-rate conductor, gave them all performances that Die Welt's critic found "almost overpoweringly impressive." Hindemith's own work, musical settings to four long passages from the books of Matthew and Luke in Latin, evoked several strikingly different moods: the first and fourth motets were highly dramatic and rhythmically complicated; the second had the lyric simplicity of folk song, while the third was reminiscent of an Arab mourning song. They displayed, concluded Die Welt, an entirely "new creative impulse...
...AFTERNOON CONCERT--a program of recorded classical music, today featuring. Resphigi Brazilian Impressions Borodin-Quartet No. 2; Mozart-Piano Concerto No. 16, K. 451; Schutz-St. Matthew Passion; Schoenberg-Violin Concerto; Beethoven-Quartet No. 1, Op. 18, No. 1; Handel-Trio Sonata...
...factory job that he had held for twelve years. And as school opening loomed last week, the entire Sunday service at his Galilee Baptist Church was built around Delores. Peering down at the child, the Negro minister intoned: "But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified" (Matthew 27: 23). For three minutes the weeping congregation stood in silent prayer for her safety...
...Matthew, Mark, Luke and John Stop that train till I get on O my way, my way, my way My way seems so hard...
...stinking of death, plucking off the worms, squeezes a new measure of realism out of the miracle. And his disciples are minor masterpieces of winy characterization. They are no heroes; Peter's nickname, for instance, is "Windmill," for his susceptibility to every change in the breeze of opinion. Matthew is "short, stout, jaundiced; his hands yellow and soft, his fingers inky, nails black; he had long hairy ears and a high voice like a eunuch's." The one strong man of the lot is a red-bearded giant named Judas Iscariot...