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Zimmermann's score is derived from a single twelve-note row containing all the musical intervals, but still has room for such disparate elements as Gregorian chant, Bach chorales and, during a dance number, an anachronistic rock band. Each of the scenes in the opera's four acts is organized according to a musical genre: chaconne, toccata, ricercar-another explicit resemblance to Wozzeck...
...picturesque Japanese island of Ikitsuki, where the ways of farmers and fishermen die hard, two old men squat before a home altar and chant prayers carefully entrusted to them by their ancestors. The ritual is intense and moving. But something is askew. The rite is partly Buddhist, partly Christian. The language sounds odd, a sort of pidgin Latin. And what do the ancient prayers mean? One of the worshipers admits, "I don't understand a word of this...
...Gloria" has interweaving melody lines in the vein of a Gregorian chant, and "Scarlet" has an appealing marching rhythm. But U2 simply superimposes these effects on the music when they should give the changes precedence. The Dublin sound was fresh and new but rapidly stagnating. Though U2 gained a foothold in the American market by accenting their insular origin, they must develop something beyond their formula to hold onto their popularity. Otherwise they will suffer the fate of ephemeral bands like the Knack and glide right back into obscurity...
...Pope is far from alone among church leaders. Lutheran, Calvinist and Roman Catholic clergy were among the early organizers of Europe's widespread antinuclear movement. In the U.S. a growing number of pastors and prelates are taking up the chant. The movement is not limited to predictable leftist or pacifist church circles; it has entered the religious mainstream. This month the 37 regional executives of the American Baptist Churches called the very existence of nuclear weapons, much less willingness to use them, "a direct affront to our Christian beliefs." The bishops of the United Methodist Church proclaimed in November...
...march down a corridor of the Sheraton Washington Hotel led by Democratic Congressman Claude Pepper, 81, of Florida to the doors of the Economics Committee, which was considering recommendations for revising the Social Security system. While Pepper stepped aside to negotiate a compromise, hundred of supporters stayed to chant and sing We Shall Overcome. The compromise was as inconclusive as much of the rest of the conference: it opposed any reduction in current Social Security benefits, but failed to define whether a change in the complicated formulas would constitute a reduction; it opposed cutbacks for future recipients, but may have...