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...dizzy cross rhythms. Pixinguingha, a 250-pound Negro medal winner of the Brazilian National Academy of Music, puts in some featherweight flute-playing. Two sides are emboladas: as folkish to Brazilians as Frankie and Johnny is to Americans. Of the fascinating chants by Indian singers, one has so strangely Gregorian a flavor that it seems to show the hand of the Portuguese fathers who braved the Amazon jungles three centuries...
...Hutchins of the University of Chicago). Aliens registered too: Chinese with Japanese; Austrians, Spaniards, Arabians, Hindus, Javanese. The draft boards had to have on hand specialists to translate Chinese birthdays like K.S. 23, 1, 16 (16th day, 1st month, 23rd year of the Kuang Hsü period) into the Gregorian equivalent...
Once they planned "a reverent, three-dimensional presentation of Da Vinci's Last Supper, with life-sized models of the apostles, trick lighting effects and a musical background of Gregorian chants supplied by a phonograph with an electrical record-changing device," but dropped it when they failed to find a suitable Catholic organization to sponsor it. "Rogers says, without any disrespect: 'The nuns would not play ball with...
...made out of Cellophane and shoe dye), a lawn with real grass. Through the church door paraded a dozen live models, women in spring street clothes, men in frock coats, military uniforms and mufti. Once a day six choristers from the Paulist choir stepped into the window and caroled Gregorian chants, their shrill-sweet descant relayed by amplifier to the street outside. The Franklin Simon window attracted almost too much attention. Army authorities straightway protested against this unseemly display of the uniform, and Franklin Simon had to substitute a vaguely military garb. The New York Police Department served the store...
Some years back, I do not know the exact date, the Greek Church adopted the Gregorian calendar and Greek people now celebrate all their holidays in accordance with that calendar. The only exception is Easter...