Word: neapolitan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assistant director of the choir and director of the Choral Society, includes three songs which were also on last year's program, "The Holly and the Ivy," a traditional Gloucestershire carol, "Fum, Fum, Fum," a Christmas march from the Catalonian province, and the "Christmas Carol of the Pifferari," a Neapolitan air. The other carols, which have not been sung recently are "Glory to God in the Highest," by Pergolist; "The Five Lesser Joys of Mary," by Warlock, "Upon My Lap My Sovereign Sits," by Pierson; "Christmas Bells," by Osgood; and "Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence," by Gustay Holat...
...carols to be given this year included three songs that were on last year's program, "The Holly and the Ivy", a traditional Gloucestershire carol, "Fum, Fum, Fum", a jolly Christmas march from the Catalonian province, and the "Christmas Carol of the Pifferarl", a Neapolitan air. Of the carols that have not been done recently are "Glory to God in the Highest", by Pergolisi, "The Five Lesser Joys of Mary", by Warlock, "Upon Mr Lap My Sovereign Sits", by Person, "Christmas Bells", by Osgood, and "Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence", by Gustav Holst...
...most valuable books in the collection is an autograph album which was owned by Camillo Cerdogm, a Neapolitan Nobleman who succeeded in getting Milton's signature...
...have seen his palette," wrote his friend and compatriot by birth, Andre Kormendi, last month. "It had almost no colors. It was like a strip of fog. . . . One saw tiny dabs of Neapolitan yellow, a little blue and green, but all of it melted into the black-white-grey which covered his palette softly as the dusk covered his studio...
Disagreeing radically with the seismologists, Naples' dour Cardinal Ascalesi, guardian of St. Januarius' skull, insisted that the real cause of the earthquake was the indecent dresses of Neapolitan women...