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...author of Julian and a man who considers Christianity "the single greatest disaster that has ever happened to the West," Vidal seems to delight in the company of clerics. One of the people he dines with in Rome is American Jesuit John Navone, a theologian at the Pontifical Gregorian University. When Navone once brought a group of visiting Jesuits to Vidal's apartment, Vidal greeted them with the question "Out for a night in Transylvania...
PRESERVATION WAS introduced in a cinematographic style which included a recording of a kind of lyrical overture accompanied by slides projected on a large screen to announce the oratorio title and introduce the protagonists. The performance proper commenced with a mixed choir clad in garments befitting Gregorian monks. Appropriately enough, the introductory segment was a melodious theme calling to mind twelfth century plainchant. The show proceeded faultlessly without elaborate ornamentation or stage settings, which was just as well, since it allowed the audience to concentrate on the musical side of the production...
Robert Sanchez, 40. The newly appointed Archbishop of Santa Fe, a native New Mexican who spent four years studying theology Rome's Gregorian University, vaulted to eminence from a parish priesthood in Albuquerque. Sanchez is a pleasantly informal clergyman who has already stirred up his predominantly Hispanic Roman Catholic archdiocese in New Mexico. He has requested that the churches in his domain contribute a Sunday's offering to Cesar Chavez's farm workers...
...middle of the Seine. Some 400 mourners, including his widow Claude, his son Alain, members of the government and old friends, crowded the baroque church for the 50-minute service. His casket was draped with the French tricolor and, as he had requested, a choir of monks chanted ancient Gregorian hymns. After the ceremony, a cortege of black Citroëns carried the immediate family and the casket to the Pompidous' weekend retreat in the village of Orvilliers, 31 miles outside of Paris. There, after an eight-minute prayer service, the body of the late President was interred...
Following liturgical practice, the appropriate antiphons (Gregorian chants used to introduce psalms) were sung before and after each composition. Although musicologically correct, this was weak dramatically. The antiphons were violently anticlimactic coming as they did, after the most elaborate polyphony. In theory, it might seem a powerful contrast to repeat them at the end of each section; but in practice, it could only detract from a concert performance...