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...swelling chorus that any director would snap up for a Biblical movie epic passed into a hot-gospeling rendition of Psalm 100 ("Make a joyful noise unto the Lord"). Psalm 23 ("The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want") was a pastoral solo sung by a boy alto till the chorus interrupted with "Why do the nations rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?" The third and finest section of Bernstein's 18½-minute work interweaves Psalm 131 through a simple canon to a pianissimo "Amen...
...setting of prayers from the Roman Catholic Mass out of conviction that the vitality of jazz is the best way to modernize the spirit of church worship. High point of the record is Schifrin's eerie, agonized Creed: behind the free-form obbligato of Paul Horn's alto sax, the eight members of a chorus autonomously sing, at their own pace and in their own key, the words of the Nicene Creed, dynamically ascending in volume with each phrase. By the final "amen," the shouting cacophony shatters the ear, yet conveys a sense that this too-familiar proclamation...
...also with alto sax, clarinet, bongos and bass? Increasingly, U.S. churches are coming around to the idea that contemporary worship can have a contemporary beat, and jazz in the liturgy, once a way for adventurous pastors to shock their congregations, is now taken seriously as an approach that Christianity can follow in praising the Lord. More important, the jazz being heard in cathedral chancels is no longer amateurish doodling at Dixieland by clerics in their off-hours but scores composed and played by topflight professional musicians who are intrigued by the possibilities of blending their art with the traditional forms...
Fail-Safe. Movie cameras have also come in for a much-needed overhaul. In the last six years, the sale of 8-mm. movie cameras has dropped more than 60%, and the 16-mm. cameras have all but faded from the picture alto gether. One reason was that the cameras and projectors were simply too difficult to operate. As a result, the general run of home movies were bombs. Explained a Kodak survey in 1963: "Home movies create a situation in which one can fail. No man likes to appear a failure to his wife or children...
Letters began to pour into the legislators' offices, and people in Pough-keepsie, Pensacola, and Palo Alto began to hear of Harvard's sycamores...