Word: seraphim
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...chance or mistake, it turns out that you have not been invited, do not despair. Neither have some 231,964,159 other Americans, give or take a dozen or so. Only a select seraphim of the moneyed and powerful will meet Charles and Diana when they make their three-day visit this weekend to Washington and then, after a brief frenzy of sight-seeing, partygoing and media deluge, hop down to Palm Beach for a round of polo and another party. But after all, what are you missing? Up close, Charles is a polite, diffident, self-conscious fellow...
...house lights dim, wind chimes fill the night, and a lady appears at her cello to play a wistful air. Welcome to empyrean, where wit is a state of grace and the seraphim move in minute, minuet steps. No mortals need apply here, in this latest Royal Shakespeare Company triumph, which opened last week at Broadway's Gershwin Theater in repertory with Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac. In the Much Ado realm, gods and goddesses play at love, duel with words, feign indifference and even death to gauge a suitor's passion-all to wile away...
...Bach: Two Cantatas--This is the third and apparently last of the Bach cantatas Seraphim will bring out using the combined forces of Elly Ameling, Janet Baker, Theo Altmeyer, and Hans Sotin with the South German Bach expert Wolfgang Gonnenwein conducting. One grieves, for Cantatas 126 and 149 recorded here only prove this the best ensemble in the business today...
...into The Choir Invisible, this is the nearest thing to a recording of thousands of cherubim and seraphim singing their little hearts out on Judgment Day. All sweetness and light. But if you're not ready to die yet, try something a little more down to earth...
...chambers (and connected to them by a green-carpeted circular stairway). Where does that leave His Serene Highness General Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin, 36, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, Count of the Russian Empire, recipient of Prussia's Black Eagle decoration, Denmark's White Elephant and Sweden's Holy Seraphim? It apparently leaves him maneuvering to retain his power by appealing solely to the Empress's judgment rather than her emotions...