Word: christe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subject to a different understanding that comes from psychiatry and ultimately from Freud." The Rev. Richard Deam of the First Baptist Church in Brewster, N.Y., says that a course in pastoral psychology taught him that "anger is not always wrong. It can be a healthy, constructive emotion, as when Christ forced the moneylenders from the Temple...
...Kraus's The Living Theatre of Medieval Art (Indiana University Press; $15) concerns the tympanum of the abbey church at Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne, probably the earliest (circa A.D. 1130) monumental portrayal of the Judgment Day. Until Kraus came along, scholars had assumed that seven little men at Christ's feet represented souls of the blessed and the damned rising from their graves. Kraus, however, noted that they were clothed instead of naked, contrary to customary portrayals of souls, and that all were men (normally, some would be women). While four were either praying or pointing toward Jesus, three...
Luke, played tightly but exuberantly by Paul New man, is a common man who is heading for trouble, everyone warns him, because he won't stay down. He portrays Christ as Rebel, the peasant radical elevated to deity, similar to Christ in Pasolini's Marxist-oriented The Gospel According to Saint Matthew...
...Luke is no run-of-the-mill Christ figure. He is above all a rebel and his deification is reserved for the finale. He is far more Marlon Brando than Billy Budd. He tries to escape from camp twice and is brutally punished. Beaten into submission, he tells the guards, "I got my mind right. Don't hit me anymore." But he gets away again and is eventually trapped in a church, where with cops and rifles all around, he calmly sticks his head out a window and gets it blown...
After sitting in on rehearsals last week for the U.S. premiere of his two-hour oratorio, the Passion and Death of Jesus Christ According to St. Luke, Polish Composer Krzysztof Penderecki was exuberant. The conductor, he said, "is excellent. He understands modern music-he has composed it himself. I have complete trust in him." Penderecki was talking about the musical director of the Minneapolis Symphony, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, 44. Later in the week, Skrowaczewski returned the compliment by leading his orchestra, soloists and local choristers in two austerely jolting performances of the Passion at Minneapolis' Northrup Auditorium...