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...Bremer and his congregation will celebrate the birth of Christ with four choral Eucharists, at which all the prayers and responses will be sung in plain chant. Instead of the austere black robe that his predecessor wore, the Rev. Mr. Bremer will dress in full Eucharistic vestments-alb, stole, maniple and chasuble, all in white. St. Mark's altar will bear six candles instead of two; candles, as well as a Cross, will be carried in processions that begin and end the services...
...clear, eloquent in every detail. And it brought an ovation. As the orchestra was packing its instruments, Cliburn reappeared to play an encore-Chopin's A-flat Polonaise. Then another, Rachmaninoff's Etude Tableau. The orchestra left for the night, but the audience stayed on. Cliburn played Albéniz' Eritaña. He walked offstage and came back again, smiling and bowing. At last he stole a look at the piano, walked over to it. put a hand on it and-to another burst of gratified cheers -rippled into Chopin's Etude...
...Stockholm's Great Church, lights blazed and television cameras blinked one day last week as Lutheran Bishop Helge Ljungberg solemnly placed an alb and gold-embroidered chasuble over the shoulders of a brand-new minister in Sweden's Lutheran state church. The minister: Elisabeth Durle, 30, who studied pharmacology before she switched to theology, plans to be a suburban curate. Also ordained elsewhere on the same day: Ingrid Persson, 48, who passed her theological exams in 1936 and has been a deaconess since 1949; Margit Sahlin, 46, who is already a member of the Central Committee...
...SPIRIT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT IS ITS AUDACIOUS BUT NECESSARY ATTEMPT TO HOLD FREEDOM AND ORDER IN BALANCE . . . THE EFFORT SOMETIMES FAILS, ISSUING IN AGONIZING PERIODS OF FRUSTRATION AND DEFEAT. IN SUCH TIMES FAINTHEARTED MEN SURRENDER TO THE ILLUSORY COMFORT OF THE STRONG ARM, EVEN IF CLAD IN ALB AND CHASUBLE. THE REV. MR. KERNAN'S SURRENDER AFTER 26 YEARS IS SYMBOLIC OF A TRUTH WHICH PROPONENTS OF FREEDOM HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN-NAMELY THIS: IT IS EASIER TO THINK AND WORSHIP FOR PEOPLE THAN IT IS WITH THEM. MR. KERNAN'S NEAR CONTEMPT ' FOR THE LAITY INDICATES...
...nimble-fingered best. Starting his program with a Bach fugue, he played transcriptions of works by Frescobaldi, Scarlatti, Haydn and Mozart, making his six-stringed instrument sound as brilliant as a harpsichord or as plaintive as a lute. When he concluded his program with music by Spanish Composers Albéniz and Granados, and the Italian, CastelnuovoTedesco, he was greeted with cries of "merci, merci" and "gracias," was shouted back for 15 curtain calls...