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Last night's performance, which was led by the Glee Club's conductor, Victor Yellin, was generally uneven, though it too, like the Requiem, had some high points, notably the stunning Gregorian chant tenor solo, sung by Donald Brown. The Williams Glee Club sang with perfect intonation and balance, but these could not make up for its unpolished and open tone. An uneasy, strained quality dominated the performance, relieved only occasionally by sections of tonal warmth...
...Play of Daniel (New York Pro Musica; Decca). In a fascinating excursion into the Middle Ages, the nation's most avid collectors of musical antiquities present an early church musical drama in the original Latin text. The vocal parts suggest everything from Gregorian chant to folk song, the orchestra includes such authentic curiosities as a rebec, a vielle and a minstrel's harp. The result is a sound as finely jeweled, as warmly colored, and often as moving as an expanse of stained glass...
...church gave the Indian music the gifts of polyphony and the Gregorian chant which have since been absorbed into the Latin American music, he added...
...days. It was nearly six hours shorter than the true year, so they worked out a system of correction (in the 6th or 7th century) that did not disturb the order of months and days in their calendar. This formula was at least as accurate as the Gregorian leap-year correction which was not introduced until...
...Vatican radio, edit the Vatican newspaper, staff Rome's Gregorian University (for ecclesiastics), whose alumni include Pope Pius XII as well as 13 previous Popes, 77 cardinals, 686 bishops and eight saints...