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Monteverdi is a brilliant tactician; he bases just about all the Vespers music on the ancient traditon of Gregorian chant. Surely that will appeal to conservative church authorities. And he shows a dazzling musical variety in doing so; surely that will impress the musical world. And he intersperses the psalms and canticles with the very latest things, little concertos or motets for solo voices, displaying the fabulous virtuosity that the Mantuan singers, under Monteverdi's direction, were capable...
...fans, need to overcome the musical and entertainment deficiencies and cheer on the home team. During the closing minutes of regulation of the Penn game, a "Let's go Quakers!" chant resonated throughout the Pavilion for almost a minute until a "Let's go Harvard" counterattack drowned out the screams of the heretics...
This is not to say that I do not believe that race or ethnicity has a role in a person's life--it does. Indeed, we are all shaped by our experiences. And my view of the world is very much shaped by the fellow fourth graders who would chant in unison that I was a "terrorist" or the French airport officials who detained me for over two hours (even though I was born and raised in America) because my last name sounded North African, just as a black student would be shaped by his encounters with racist police officers...
...past seven years closed its doors eight months ago. You once had a car, but it was stolen. Inflation is devaluing the little cash you have at the annual rate of 310%. What do you do? You take to the streets and jump up and down to the roaring chant of "Anyone who doesn't jump...
...Fireflies, Fireflies, Light My Way By Jonathan London (Viking; $14.99). The title becomes part of a familiar chant ("Fireflies, fireflies, light my way/ Lead me to the place where the turtles play") when the story is read by an adult with a three-year-old chiming in. Linda Messier's glowing, Henri Rousseau-inspired illustrations help a child recognize the frogs, catfish, wood ducks and otters that inhabit a nighttime pond deep in the woods. Alligators turn up too, but this being a gentle tale, they pretty much keep to themselves...