Word: amens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...haunting cantata, Saul, Saul, Why Persecutest Thou Me? Director Reese hardly expected to make Schütz fans of his audience in one concert, was ready for one listener's "My, it's very different, isn't it?", another's hopeful sigh after the final Amen, "Is it really over?" At least among his choristers, familiarity bred delight. As one young singer burbled after the music was over: "Wait till you hear tomorrow's program. That 84th Psalm- it's terrific...
...scope of collegiate glee clubs. Serious music of this sort, with difficulties for listeners as well as performers, is now an expected and fundamental part of any choral concert. Dufay's Gloria in Excelsis Deo was, for me, the high point of the evening. It pushes forward to the "Amen" with rhythmic ferocity--the strong beats of each phrase pile on top of one another, one tension is resolved by another, and the general excitement lasts even through the quieter music that follows...
...forces of Nature, the earthy pleasures of the Folk, and Satan's cynical malice. Except for a brief moment of enchanted sleep, the Devil offers him only a brutal bird's eye view of earth and its blasphemies: armies on the march, revelers bloated with wine, and a drunken Amen on the death of a rat. For his great affaire de coeur, Faust must sneak behind a curtain while Marguerite prepares for bed, then pop into sight only when magic has rendered her more than willing. The disillusion culminates as neighbors assemble outside and mockingly call for Mother Oppenheim...
...young members of his congregation give a hearty amen to that. "Having our own chapel makes us feel much more at home than in a normal congregation," said one of them last week. "I'm doing a lot more here than I would at home...
...seminarians found a few heartening exceptions. One minister on Chicago's West Side enlivened his sermon by displaying two heroin needles; one dramatized the meaning of repentance by barking "Halt! Attention! About face! Forward March! Amen." Another likened the forgiveness of God to "the feeling of getting two or three machines off your back...