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...will be canonized on May 29. Pius, who had an excellent voice himself, instituted a major reform of Catholic church music. Fighting the widespread use in church of professional opera singers and instruments such as drums, trumpets and violins, he advocated a return to Gregorian chant...
...master hand of Louis de Rochemont is obvious in such touches as market place scenes and the ceric effect of coweled monks sitting, mummy-like in their stalls, singing Gregorian chants. And director Irving Pichel controls the pace, never allowing the action to falter or interfere with the film's message...
...Birligile. Ataturk liberated law, education and marriage from the mullahs; turned mosques into granaries; switched the day of rest from Friday to Sunday; tossed out the Islamic calendar and ordered in the Gregorian calendar of the Western world. He made suffrage universal, adopted the metric system, ordered all Turks to take on last names, took the first census in Turkish history. Harems were forbidden and monogamy became...
Masterpieces of Music before 1750 (Danish soloists and ensembles directed by Mogens Wöldike; Haydn Society, 3 LPs). Fifty brief selections, carefully performed and recorded. The first disk begins with the constricted Gregorian chant beginning with the 7th century, goes up to 16th century instrumental dances. No. 2 takes the story from large motets by Lassus and Byrd up through early Italian opera by Monteverdi and massive 17th century organ music. The final disk contains mostly Bach and Handel works. A scholarly collection, but with plenty of appeal to the ear as well...
Ernesto Cardinal Ruffini, 65, Archbishop of Palermo. At 27, Ruffini was a professor of biblical introduction (interpretation of the Bible in the light of science, history and doctrine) at Rome's Gregorian University. He has since become one of the church's foremost educators and theologians. In 1944 he founded the Medical Biological Union of St. Luke, whose aim is to clarify Catholic doctrine in the field of medical science...