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Christian congregations have not always been allowed to lift up their hearts in songs of praise. St. Ambrose, 4th Century Bishop of Milan and teacher of St. Augustine, seems to have started congregational hymn singing in the Western church. Some of the church, fathers opposed his innovation on the grounds that it permitted women to raise their voices,* but the practice persisted. Martin Luther was strong for congregational hymns, but it was not until the 18th Century that English congregations generally took up hymn singing. What happened after that is the subject of a new book published last week: Hymns...
Died. Giuseppe De Luca, 73, Rome-born operatic baritone, one of the brightest stars of the Metropolitan's "Golden Age"; in Manhattan. He sang in the world premiere of Madame Butterfly (Milan, 1904), was in the cast when Rosa Ponselle, Marion Talley, Ezio Pinza, Lily Pons made their Metropolitan debuts, when Enrico Caruso sang his last aria...
Like many another self-made man, Milan Industrialist Giuseppe Verzocchi, 63, believes in hard work. As Italy's leading brickmaker, he also believes in bricks. Last year, barrel-shaped Giuseppe Verzocchi persuaded 72 of Italy's leading contemporary artists to paint pictures that 1) celebrated the virtues of work and 2) included, somewhere on the canvas, at least one brick. In exchange, he guaranteed them 100,000 lire ($160) apiece and the promise of a public showing...
...editor. To make life more pleasant for painters, he was also arranging to put up artists and their families free of charge in tents pitched in the gardens of his luxurious villa in the Dolomites. He had already started planning another brick-and-work show to be held at Milan's midsummer fair next year, was inviting sculptors as well as painters to participate. If & when he decides that artists have exhausted the subject of work, he plans to specify other "cornerstones of human existence," e.g., "Mother," "Fire'" and "Faith," for artistic treatment. All in all, Verzocchi said...
...only one to turn him down: Milan's slow-working Giorgio Morandi (TIME, July 18, 1949), who loves to paint bottles as much as Industrialist Verzocchi loves to make bricks. He was unwilling...