Word: choiring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eastern sector of Berlin, is a grave, 13th century church with the mien of a sanctuary and the promise of a mighty fortress. It stands behind the Iron Curtain of Christendom's enemy, and there are signs of struggle within and around it. Some of the choir boys who will sing its 16th century chorales in this troubled Eastertide wear the bright blue shirts of the Freie Deutsche Ju-gend, East Germany's Communist youth group. Last February, one of its clergy, Pastor Reinhold George, was arrested by Red security police a few yards from its doors...
...roughly 200 voice chorus which prevented the subtly shifting balance of up to eight voice parts from being clearly perceived, especially in the intricate In Ecclesiis and Jubilate Dco. Nevertheless, these works achieved a tremendous excitement, due in no small part to the assistance of an excellent brass choir. The Gabrieli Benedictus and O Jesu Mi Duleissime, on the other hand, were realized with a greater transparency of texture, perhaps because the vocal masses were more evenly balanced against each other in these works. Also, in the case of the Benedictus, the choirs were distributed in three parts of Sanders...
...this fall, I spent two hours on the guest house roof watching the Trappists (Father Merton included) "employing energies in direct relation to the needs of the hour," the needs being to harvest a crop of tomatoes. These monks, who would put any union-scale group of laborers (or choir Benedictines) to shame with the zeal of their manual labor, would certainly be startled to hear that to become Trappists they had first to be members of an elite...
Seedlings & Bulbs. Worcester is even gaining materially from Fontaine's trip: Boy Scouts in Stockholm are sending 1,000 pine seedlings this spring to Boy Scouts in Worcester; Dutch tulip growers flew 250 bulbs to Worcester where they have been planted in the city common. The Vienna Choir Boys dedicated a lullaby to Worcester; and Louis Barthe, chef at Maxim's in Paris, invented a new dish called langue de boeuf à la Worcester (recipe: soak beef tongue for six days in bay leaves, then boil and serve with a heavy port wine sauce...
...treatise on music by the 6th century Roman Boethius (better known for his Consolations of Philosophy), and an early Coptic manuscript which appears to indicate a tune by different colored notes rather than by their positioning. But most of the 103 items on view are leaves from Roman Catholic choir books, illuminated over long years of cloistered devotion by medieval and renaissance monks. They echo Byzantine mosaics and foreshadow modern art. The monks' forte was to make flat, ingenious patterns of a few brilliant colors;school-of-Paris painters do the same...