Word: christus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anton Lang, who has played Christus three times, was succeeded by his cousin, Alois Lang, chosen from three candidates. The part is exhausting. Anton is too old. So he was made the prolog reader. Alois Lang, now 38, was understudy to Anton Lang in the last performance (1922). He failed then of election to the Christus role by only a few votes and played the High Priest Nathaniel. Like his revered cousin, Alois Lang looks the part - a gentle carver of wooden Christs who has been letting his hair and beard grow for years to be prepared...
...centuries (see p. 44), some for cramping into commercial dimensions a grave, long-drawn folk epic. The Palm. Sunday entry into Jerusalem. was a complex, splendid orchestration of crowds flowing in great whorls toward and about the temple portals, looking ever backward to the approaching figure of the Christus. For the Last Supper, Leonardo's faded painting was lavishly restored in living shapes. On Calvary the greensward was cool, terribly oblivious of the burdened crosses. Solemnities of tone from orchestra, organ and choir sounded through the entire pageant. In the street outside a fire siren wailed. For more than...
...Christus Vintit Christus Regnat Christus Imperat...
...program follows: Organ: Choral Preludes Bach a. Christus der uns selig macht b. Christ, unser Herr, zum Jordan kam Choir: Antiphonal, Haec dies Gallus Adoramus Te, Christe Lassus Hodie Christus natus est Palestrina Organ: Choral Preludes Bach a. Jesus Christus, unser Heiland b. Fuga: Allein Gott in der Hoh sei Ehr' Choir: O vos omnes Vittoria Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring Bach Organ: Larghetto R. Thompson Choir: Antiphonal, Pueri Hebraeorum R. Thompson Organ: Introduction and Allegro from Second Organ Concerto Handel
After months of raging, there was satisfaction last week at Oberammergau, home of the famed Passion Players. Anton Lang, able Christus, had written a letter denouncing his nephew Otto Lang for apostasy from Catholicism to Methodism. America, U. S. Catholic weekly, printed the letter: ". . . Never before was it known that any child of Oberammergau did such a thing in America as to leave the Catholic Church. For his passing over into the Methodist Church neither his relatives nor Oberammergau can be held responsible. Acting as a good Catholic, my son [Anton], who at present is studying at Holy Cross College...