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...proudly announced that this year they would go to the Citadel Chapel. He knew that at the fortress chapel the children would get a treat-the singing of Minuit, Chretiens, now seldom heard in French Canadian churches,* as well as a Gregorian chant by a soldiers' chorus and the well-loved carols in which they all would join...
...hundred knows its grammar and syntax, not one in a thousand knows its esthetics." Good church music, the professor believes, besides being written by the best composers, must either: 1) be set in a musical style that does not sound at all like secular music (i.e., the unaccompanied Gregorian chants-still sung in many a Catholic and Anglican church); or 2) have its secular elements "assimilated and purged of their worldly connotations" (i.e., the cantatas, Passions and organ works of Bach...
...money seemed able to cure his son, a hopeless epileptic since his head was injured in an auto accident. Arakelian made up his mind to send for Avak. Last week the faith healer of Azerbaijan arrived at Los Angeles' municipal airport, dressed in the long robes of a Gregorian Communicant, with matted beard and shoulder-length hair framing his pallid face...
...simple piece, consisting largely of recitative choral chant and of solos in arioso form. Some of the more extended choral passages are in two widely-spaced parts only. A few are more compact. The English declamation, though utterly clear, is not rhythmically idiomatic. It resembles rather Gregorian chant as sung by the Benedictine monks at Solesmes, except that the melodic intervals are neither proximate nor melismatic, lying chiefly between the fourth and the ninth. This constant skipping around is not unpleasant to hear, but it does not sound like English. It gives to the text an air of having been...
...Russian and Western Easters seldom coincide, can be five weeks apart. Reason: the Orthodox Church, unlike the Soviet Government, has not adopted the Gregorian calendar...