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Because Johann Sebastian Bach hymned religiously in dozens of soaring masses, magnificats, motets and fugues and developed the contrapuntal organ that still accompanies the Gregorian chant, three pious Venetian music lovers wrote the Vatican's weekly Osservatore Delia Domenica that he should be considered for sainthood. Alas, replied Theologian Benvenuto Matteucci, a Protestant is a Protestant, however sublime his music. "There is an esthetic and artistic religious sentiment in his musical expressions," Monsignor Matteucci sympathized, "but it is only through the true and only church of Christ that salvation and sainthood come." So Lutheran Bach must remain unbeatified except...
Despite some shortcoming in the remainder of the huge cast, Michael Murray's production holds up well. No thanks to the worthless Gregorian chant which Murray has inserted between scencs, the play maintains a solid continuity which should appeal to any kind of audience. And with the help of Tony van Bridge, the fire is there -- the play often wraps and wiggles with the power of a python. The Charles, in short, deserves a medal both for its courage in attempting Galileo and for its large measure of success in setting off so many of the depth charges which Brecht...
...become intellectually convinced by the claims of Catholicism. Yet, accustomed as he is to a tradition of free prayer, Bible-centered sermons and mighty hymns, he might still feel alien to a church that offers its believers private confession of sins to a priest, solemn Mass with incense and chant, and worship mostly confined to set liturgical forms...
...longer does a typical Saigon elementary class of 60 kids have only six textbooks, each of a different kind. No longer do teachers have to outline a lesson on chalkboard, make children copy it and chant it back. To stop any kid on the streets is to find one or two of the new texts in his bookbag...
...vocal soloists sang well throughout the Kodaly, but especially in a contrapuntal section which was sung simultaneously to an eerie "quaesumus subveni" chant in the full chorus. Soprano Sandra Jarrett ended the Te Deum with a lyrical solo that went up to a high A. Her tone was so beautiful that it made me shiver...