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...high opinion of that President. The opponents of Calvin Coolidge were scornful of his intellect. The opponents of Herbert Hoover despised his political bungling, sneered at his false prophecies. But the outstanding development of the last year is that Franklin Roosevelt's opponents now hate him with profound passion. The depth of this bitterness is shown by the excesses of the Liberty League and its allies, by the vast number of wholly malicious rumors attacking the President, by the flood of crank letters which go to the White House. The actual number of these letters is not of public...
...Albert Schweitzer has written an excellent description of the Passion music which may be fittingly quoted here...
...Story of Passion...
...dramatic plan is at once simple and ingenious. The story of the Passion is cast in a series of pictures. At the characteristic points the narrative breaks off, and the scene that has just passed is made the subject of a pious meditation. This is effected in arias that are usually led up to by an arioso-like recitative. At minor resting points the feelings of the Christian spectators are expressed in chorale verses. The choice of these fell to Bach, and it is just in the insertion of these choral strophes that the full depth of Bach's poetic...
...Altogether the "Saint Matthew Passion" falls into about twenty-four scenes, twelve small ones, indicated by chorales, and twelve larger ones, marked by arias. The problem of representing the action of the Passion and at the same time of giving due weight to the devotional element is solved in the most perfect way imaginable. The more we realize the dramatic plan of the "Saint Matthew Passion", the more we are convinced that it is a master piece...