Word: xl
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Psaumes (Symphony of Psalms), in spirit far removed from his sensual celebration of fertility, was given as a part of the Boston Symphony's ambitious semicentennial program. The new Stravinsky takes as text three excerpts from the Psalms (in the English version: Psalm XXXIX, Verses 12, 13; XL: 1, 2, 3; CL complete), uses a chorus to describe in Latin the transition from abject penitence to exultant praise. In the orchestra are no violins, violas or clarinets but five flutes, many other wind instruments, drums, two pianos and a harp. Bostonians, though for the most part baffled by Stravinsky...
...their heels went a "solemn warning" to the U. S. by Pope Pius XL: ". . . Beware lest Bolshevism spread in America at this moment of financial depression and unemployment...
...lion, Great Britain; the cock, France; so the lamb is one of the animals symbolically peculiar to the Papal State. Last week, in one of the prettiest ceremonies of the Catholic Church, two very special lambs received the very special blessing of His Holiness Pope Pius XL...