1950-01-07 — Page 4

CHAPTER 18 OF THE

GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD

By-

Fulton Oursler

PILAT

DILATE sat out of doors in his ivory and gilded bronzo chair. This was a

-defiant moment in his life. Is simple, uncomplicated brain was

whirling with

discordant arguments: what Procula dreamed and what Annas had already reported to the Emperor about the procurator, and the blessed light in the eyes of the con- deroned mun. He kept them waiting for his devision AN he groped for words.

How would be defend himself, if he made the wrong decision He knew the law Anyone who offered a claim of being equal to the king ennmitted teenden and we open to a sentence caf }

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GOENIE. WOLFGANG, described by Mathew Arnold' a "Europe's gest head," born August 26, 1749.. in Frankfort. Died March

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but

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THE PROGRESS of know- ledge very much retarded by the fact that people

Up

and lay-out

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oflen

devote

their

but

advance what is now: simply because they know how to put what they have to say as If it had never been salid before. BY NOTHING do men show their character more clearly then

by what they think laugh-

able.

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THE WITTY man thinks al- most everything ridiculous; the wise man scarcely anything.

DERIVE from nature no fault that may not become a virtue, no virtue that may not degenerate into a fault. Faults of the latter kind are the most

icult to cure,

BOME of our weaknesses are born in um; others are the result of education. It is a question which of the two gives us most trouble,

NOTHING

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THE MIND is found most acute And most uncasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, attention a species of sagacity-a passive Fools are never in-

either to things which are not ragacity. worth knowing or to such as are not knowable.

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We atops to ponder woman for everything but her.

love n young over his physical or moral con-

Intellect. 50 dition he generally discovers

that he is

always

EVERYONE hns enough power to carry his con- victions Into effect.

HE WHO does not think much of himself is greater than he believes himself to be.

THE MASSES cannot get or without me of enerity and ability, and yet the Inter are always a burden to them.

GENERAL Idens

and Kreat concell are always in n intr way to cause terrible mischiet

GOD provides the

nute, but does not break them open.

JOYFULNESS is the mother of all virtues,

NATURE along knows what she wants.

UNQUALIFIED activity, of my kind

whatsoever. will at Inst lead 10 bankruptcy.

THERE ARE two powers that tend towards pence the sense of right and the sense of fitness.

ALL the English write well. IT is a treat inistake to ex- pect to fad men in ngreement with us. more

I AM ASKED; which is the best Government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.

THERE Ja nothing

| frightful than ignorance in ne-

tion.

THE USEFUL, encourages its sell: for the multitude príklue- It, and no one can dispense wih, IL, The beautiful must be en- couraged; for few can set it forth, and many need It.

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only person that can never be the power of self-isolation,

improved, whether it be self-

concelt, stupility, or hypochon- dela thn nukes him unpliant and unguldable.

WE ARE really live only HE WHO would reproach on when we and delight author for abseurlly should look good will of others.

in the

LAW alone can give us free- dom.

Into his own mindi to ՐԸ whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.

THE MOST original modern authom are not so because they

THE DEED is everything; the fame is nothing.

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by ARTHUR JACOBS

1101, beading oboe gives ont the note A. and the pot of the orchestra fall upon it.

The babel of Tuning op The un- amoaned first drm of every symphony con. cert popravenda. This anareby of the orchestra before the cumiprmer's peta and the conductor's stick improve a guvernment at it.

This assembly of strings, woodwind, brass, Ted and has stad tegen with reussion and a few unclassed odiments, I

hum Iost to maxi There was

nothing else tas

the list

The

this morning. meul uries-old artistic

through tradition is always ready to d on the model

adsorb newly found tech.

eben! and march

To the plane of clark

teks Herd They head been infixed Pilate's RINGTONE

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THE MODERN ORCHESTRA: A typical compositi

kendry - bregmenata,

The two clarinets are joined by a bass clarinet, with the 'S- shape of a saxophone but n mapues of performance The Thunt, for the modern

alim clarinet-type, body. Next and, they could sal complads i father to son crafts of in Phestra. 60 players is 21 to the two bassoons is the even

strument Ring ISTO

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whole chord betwee instruments of the dudinctive tone-colour,

having 10

instead

colours.

mix

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without is her, struments of the three fald alleing given to his Symphony the total balance

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Strings

Vutighorn Williams's

1 is way the symphony latest symphony-its construc orchestra Katted

trio of tion places it with Uie wood- bis trombones. (They can be noble wind, in spite of its metal body,

Ibey CF3

also and a clarinettist nearly always

July 11,

guffaw, but it is like conden ning Shakespeariani tragedian

play the muste-halls )

Haydn was

well acquainted

You stuta stur. exceptionally large with their but they wondd have

Look

the

PURWET TRAT

and straight and look me in

and neither

nyo

orchestra numbers

A

10. overwhelard his

phony orchestra.

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composers---18

Round the binani -three are usually enough, even for mo- clustered what the musicians themselves Small sym- call the kichen department.

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dirum, of five

drum. Haydn's horns and trumpets tenor violins, Baptist.

I cut his head off! Neend violins, cellos, have since been transformed by cymbals, triangle, glocken-spiel, more of that, won't cut your head

off. Jesus! Your head

Hom stays on for me.

thr majority forming

"chorus" plend for merry' You're the string

your cousin then, like John the "voices": first

OIT. let Pilate toke it off-nnt

Back with you!"

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CRUCIFY HIMI

[double-bassUK.

Wide in their range both of sound and of emotional power, the strings take the largest share of the music.

Pilate had been talking with his wife, He knew what the returning clamour in the outer

Supplementing them are courtyard mennt, Messengers the wind instruments, in wifter than the tired feet of pairs. Characteristic colour- the priests rnced back to the

by the wood- palace with ward that ileroding is lent

flutes, oboca, had returned the prisoner with wind:

=

compliments, Whatever clarinets, bassoons. The

in Jersunlem

PARKER 21

-in price in value

efficiency

remarkable

snare

drum, tambourine,

・in"

1.

The mechanism that makes the xylophone the list could be musle go' down and around!" made three times as long. the valves.

The modern horp is no simple "horp that once"; call it rather "the harp that seven times," after the Humber of pedals (huve you noticed them?>

Previously confined to an ig- complete, disjointed scale, like angle, these instruments can now play a full scale. Thanks also to the valves, the orchestra

hos acquired the lowest and which make the strings sharp, inrgest of its brass, the tuba. natural or flat.

Woodwind

the crimes of Jesus, they were horns bind and thicken the NOTHING so revolutionary as committed

the valve-system has over therefore, under Pilate's juris musical texture.

taken the woodwind Instru- For emphasis, there are ments. But, step by step, And, also mechanical improvement has was even greater than before. the trumpets.

diction. The problem was unck

In the procurator's hands and it

What must the governor do mainly for emphasis, a pair of truer tone than those known inile them far more agile and now? Again he sat in his faney of kettledrums (otherwise by Haydn, chair and confronted the pale, called timpani). bruised prisoner.

more than

But the stringed Instruments from violin to double- proper, bass, are the least modern iri the orchestra, The period of

Antonio Stradivari (died 1737) is still the golden age of Addto moking.

Foundation

Woodwind Instruments have THIS is the symphony orch- Pilate turned from Jesus to

Haydn himself, an ugly, increased in number, but not estra a complex, living Annas, and then, hoarse voice

ever with cheerful little man of 68, generally by mere multiplien body, ever ready to take in edged

the 'impatience, he pointed out to directs

tion, More usually the composer something new, performance demands, above the Haydn ra- them that although the prisoner while seated at 籍 harpsi- tion, the big or little brother of was a Galllean, nevertheless chord. Herod Antipas, the Tetrarch, had refused to do anything with him. As for himself, he could

only repeat what he had said

on the

the basic type.

Hence the lay-out Replace him by a modern conductor and the modern year with two flutes, a piccole orchestra is not far away. (which

in Italian

Experiment, experiment. Com- posers' art, players skill, con- structors' discoveries all sanke for change.

But, despite even the last century's odvance in wind in-

a struments, string tone remains means the foundation, In today's orchestra. Haydn's .00

men

before:

I find no cause. You have for the five-voiced string "tle"), with two oboes, a cor prosented to me this man as one chorus still-out-numbers the anglais

( deeper instrument would recognise their strapping that perverts the people, and other instruinents, and English horn," but it is not of the obor type: literally

grandchild. behold I having examino Him

these others are still group- Engilsh and not a horn). (Continued on Pago. 18)

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