Word: chantings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...words to go with their music, and for religious themes. Barber's 20-minute work used as its text none of Kierkegaard's intricate philosophizing, but some simple and often beautiful prayers which Composer Barber culled from the preacher's writings. The work begins with plain chant, moves on to orchestral fortissimos. a restrained soprano solo, joyous choral passages and occasional Dies Irae trumpet blasts. But the overall effect is quiet, without either the sweetness or the grandeur expected of religious music. It is clean rather than austere. But at its best, the music matches the tender...
...implications of the Westchester episode are staggering. They open up a whole new field to aggressive advertising. For a certain consideration to the MTA, streetcar motormen could be instructed to stop each passenger as he pays his fare, sieze him by the lapels, and chant: "THROW AWAY YOUR DISH TOWELS! The Crossly Automatic Dishwasher-Drier Washes and Dries faster then any other Dishwasher," or some such maxim...
Lower voices repeatedly chant "glance aside," while the sopranos sing in a more sustained line of "old enchantments." And the evocation of magic "where the greylight meets the green air" ends with the climactic cry "Suddenly!"--a word lifted from the poem's opening line...
Despite, or because of, this cautious arrangement, the two religious groups are vigilant rivals. At dawn on Sundays, the bells of Beirut's churches clang so loudly that good Moslems groan and cover their heads. At dawn on other mornings, the muezzins chant their calls to prayer over loudspeaker-equipped minarets, to the annoyance of sleepy Christians. Last week Muled el Nebi, the birthday of the Prophet Mohammed, rolled around. Moslems festooned Beirut in palm branches and garlands of electric lights. The climax was to be a torchlight parade...
...streets of Seoul 20,000 South Koreans gave a new and heartfelt twist to an old Communist slogan. As they watched veterans of the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division embark for home, they shouted the rising chant: "Yankee, don't go home!" For the G.I.s, the occasion was a happy one, but disturbed South Koreans hung out banners proclaiming that "withdrawal of U.S. forces invites destruction...