Word: oratoria
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...Joan Sutherland is its major attraction, and Sir Adrian Boult its conductor. And unfortunately, Sir Adrian is one of those who thinks that Miss Sutherland can only sing well when she is singing Puccini (a palpable falsehood). Consequently, Sir Adrian has ripped Handel's oratoria from its century, making it as operatic and as nineteenth-century as he can. The result is a sprawling, unkempt orchestra, bawling, dyspeptic singers, and crawling, inept tempos. (London A 4357--you'll recognize the album by the ugly crucifix on its cover...
Latin 9.--Latin Literature.--Cicero and Quintilian. Selections from the De Oratore and the Institutio Oratoria. Mon., Wed., Fri., at 2.30. Dr. W. W. Baker...