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...rare films of Sabbath Eve services in Budapest's Dohany (Tabak) Synagogue-the center of the Jewish ghetto during Nazi occupation. LOOK UP AND LIVE (CBS, 10:30-11 am) "The Evolution of Church Music." An explanation of the ethnic adaptations of liturgical music, an analysis of the Gregorian chant, and illustrative performances by Composer-Conductor C. Alexander Peloquin's Chorale comprise the first of a three-part series...
...Steps. A shy, pale, hulking figure, "Bernie" Lonergan is a much-storied underground legend among Catholic intellectuals. Born in Buckingham, Quebec, near the Ontario border, he decided to enter the Jesuits at 17, studied at his society's Heythrop College near Oxford and at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University. He spent 13 years teaching theology at Jesuit seminaries in Canada before moving to "the Greg" in 1953. There he follows a life as precisely organized as his thought. He teaches or writes from 8 until lunch, and after his siesta takes an hour-long walk that never varies...
Learning by Era. Modernizing a plan of study introduced by Emma Willard in the 19th century, the curriculum integrates its studies of art, religion, music and literature into single historical eras. A freshman studies ancient history. A sophomore learning about the Renaissance studies the medieval church, listens to Gregorian chants, designs an illuminated manuscript in her art class. The junior year concentrates on the industrial revolution, and the senior year on modern times...
...sort of blue-velours-lined grotto, bathed in the beams of 50 spotlights. Toward the darker wings, 400 hanging half-watt blue lights gently twinkle, serving as automatic votive lamps. Behind the sculpture looms a 25-ft.-high theatrically draped cross, like a pious afterthought, while piped-in Gregorian chants tranquilize the atmosphere...
...particular, he advocates broadening secondary school programs to include courses in listening and in musical literature, instead of just performing groups. He presents some specific recommendations for the content of these courses. Those in literature, he says, should not be surveys of everything from Gregorian to twelve-tone music, but should deal with a more specific group of compositions, emphasizing listening assignments rather than a textbook. Listening courses should study the sonorities of instruments, the texture of chamber music, and composers' individual peculiarities of style, and should stress the difference between program and non-program music. Woodworth also applies some...