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...have just read your excellent Jan. 16 article. I have spent many years in the study of the Gregorian chant and spent much time at Solesmes. There are several groups in this country dedicated to the revival of the chant, and one of them is my own choir, which consists of ecclesiastical students for the priesthood from the seminary which is attached to our abbey. Darius Milhaud has become so interested in our attempt to revive the chant that he has composed Trots Psaumes de David for my choir. This composition is the setting to music of several...
...victim of its own success. Statesmen, who are politicians when they get back home, have found it all too easy to believe that their security is the result, not of their own strength but of a change in Russian hearts. "The threat of war is diminishing." they chant...
Chief target for this chant is U.S. General Alfred Gruenther, Supreme Commander of all NATO forces in Europe. To the chanters, Gruenther retorts that the only change in the Russians is what NATO's strength has forced on them. With a cascade of facts drawn from an incredible memory, an inextinguishable smile and a dry Nebraska lucidity that is the admiration of every statesman in Europe, Al Gruenther fights that tired feeling with a combination of public optimism and private exhortation that is his specialty. To those who speak of Russian smiles, he recites precise figures of Russian forces...
Last week Roman Catholics could study the first full-dress encyclical on the subject in the church's history (title: Musicae Sacrae Disciplina). In it Pius XII held up as model for all devotional singing the "sacred Gregorian Chant . . . a precious treasure that must be carefully maintained and copiously shared with the Christian people." The Pope did not object to instrumental music or modern polyphonic compositions if their character is sacred. But if the "simple, even naive" music of the Gregorian Chant is heard in all Catholic churches, wrote the Pope, "the faithful in every part of the world...
Penance for a Flat. Gregorian Chant, or plain song, is a flowing unaccompanied chant that originated in the Greek, Roman and Hebrew melodies used by the first Christians. Thousands of these chants were composed by unknown authors; according to tradition, it was not until the 6th century that they were collected and edited under St. Gregory the Great, who was Pope from 590 to 604. Gregorian Chant, the music of the church, was practically the only written music in Europe during the early Middle Ages, but with the Renaissance, a new flamboyance began to corrupt the ancient Latin prayer-songs...