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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was "Twentieth Century Folk Mass," the product of one Fr. Geoffrey Beaumont, which has recently been recorded by the highly competent orchestra of Frank Weir (who is a sort of British Percy Faith). The Anglican service has been provided with music more usually associated with the world of TV variety shows and popular erotic ballads. Fr. Beaumont professes to write in the spirit of the old polyphonists, who wove popular tunes of their day into their masses. Most people in England, he argues, are responsive only to the kind of music purveyed on the mass-consumption mediums. What better...
...arrangements of Peter Knight, although Mr. Knight has obviously done his best to keep a straight face. The chorus croons Kyrie Eleison over a lulling beguine rhythm, as bongos patter softly and violins execute Viennese glissandos. The whole idea has strong overtones of a collegiate hoax, but Fr. Beaumont has apparently convinced many people that the matter must be approached with deadly seriousness...
NICHOLAS CRABBE (245 pp.) -Fr. Rolfe (Baron Corvo) -New Directions...
...funds with $448 million in assets; today 149 funds hold $12.75 billion in assets, the great bulk of it stocks. Another $12 billion in stocks is held by other institutional buyers such as insurance companies and pension funds. Even such stiff-collared investment bankers as Lehman Bros. and Lazard Frères went into the fund business, unable to resist the clamor for shares. Lehman originally offered shares worth $37.5 million; demand was so great the issue was boosted to $198 million. Lazard also first thought of $37.5 million, sold $127.5 million...
Both Dawson and Fr. Porras concurred on the likelihood that the new Pope would soon begin to fill the vacancies among Cardinal seats. They believe one of his first tasks will be to restore the number of Cardinals, now 53, to the maximum desired amount...