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Be that as it may, I shall always owe a debt of gratitude to Ober-Ammergau, and as long as memory lasts shall remember Die Kreuzesschule. Varese is an ancient little town on a hill overlooking the small lake of the same name in the midst of the mountainous country between Como and Lago Maggiore, and a little to the southward of the Lake of Lugano.
This lasted nearly three minutes, during which time the figures were really perfectly motionless. The basso finished his air and the tenor sang another while the curtain was up. This tableau represented the cross supported by an angel, while grouped around were men, women and children looking up at it in adoration. This was the "Kreuzesschule" the school of the Cross the prologue to the piece.
The play to be represented was not the "Passion play," which is given every ten years, but the Kreuzesschule, which is played once in fifty years last in 1825. In it the play is taken from the Old Testament, and the tableaux from the New Testament the reverse of the Passion play. The orchestra began punctually at nine o'clock.
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