Word: chants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...About Cha (Billy Williams Quartet; Mercury). Over a persistently throbbing chant, frantic Billy begins his revelations quite normally, but works up to what sounds like a pathological climax...
Author Griffin writes in the first person in diary form. His hero is a young American musicologist in France who arrives at a Benedictine monastery to study Gregorian chant. Author Griffin did the same thing, admits that Devil is at least an "intellectual history." His hero is no Roman Catholic, but by the rules of the order he must live as a monk so long as he stays at the monastery. This is not easy. His unheated stone cell is bitterly cold, the food is execrable, and he must share such work as cleaning the primitive lavatories. Moreover, his brain...
...Yard--which was their present world. Then from somewhere, from some window, Eaton knew not which, and it never will be known, there issued a second echo of Kent's lamentive strain. . . Then a third. . . . Next a chorus. . . . You know the rest in the talk you have heard. The chant has reverberated through the decades. At the time of the Harvard Tercentenary, in 1936, the headlines read "Rinehart Himself in Town...
...Almost immediately," Rinehart said, "the Yard became a bedlam as the shouts rose into a chant, and the cry caught the fancy of the undergraduates who had been wearied by examinations and were wanting some way to relieve the precommencement tension." But John Rinehart spoke too late. He only added his version, which was officially recorded as truth in Samuel Eliot Morison's "Three Centuries of Harvard," to the original and more dramatic story...
...that he was in his room in the spring of 1900 when friends began calling him from the walk below. He ignored the cries until Frank Simmonds, a freshman in Matthews, joined the shouting. "Almost immediately," Rinehart said, "the Yard became a bedlam as the shouts rose into a chant, and the cry caught the fancy of the undergraduates...