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Brown University President Vartan Gregorian has called U.S. Ambassador Robert Strauss in Moscow and the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to pressure Moscow for a full-scale investigation...
...gopher site: lubavitch.chabad. org/1) over the Net. Cyberspace's devoted may also download the King James Bible, the Book of Mormon, the Koran and bits from the Dead Sea Scrolls. A Catholic University site offers a database with lyrics to the millennium's most popular -- and currently chart-topping -- Gregorian chants (http://gopher://vmsgopher.cua.edu...
...Gregorian seems to have a trancelike effect on its fans. The Anonymous 4 is a New York City-based quartet of women who have developed a cult following for their authentic performances of Gregorian chant and other medieval music. Susan Hellauer, a member of the group, says, "The most common single comment we get from audiences is that they were 'transported.' " There is a certain irony here. Chant was composed to serve and honor spiritual texts, but it seems unlikely that its new fans are paying much heed to the Latin words. After all, would they really be out there...
...origins of plainchant are obscure. The music takes its name from Pope Gregory I (A.D. 590-604), but probably developed in the Carolingian empire -- part of which is now Germany -- during the 8th and 9th centuries. There may be as many as 11,000 Gregorian melodies, ranging from relatively simple psalm settings to elaborate tropes that were included in the Mass. The Second ^ Vatican Council's reforms, particularly the mandated use of vernacular instead of Latin liturgies, relegated chant to a few churches and religious communities like Santo Domingo de Solis that kept the old ways as best they could...
Classical Music: Look out, rap, here comes Gregorian chant...