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...Psalter-Hymnal." U.P.'s have their choice of droning through often unmusical Psalm music or singing more spirited hymn music...
Merry Mount started off with a promising overture, stanch and hymnal. After that the orchestra seemed capable of only the most commonplace description. The Hell scene was noisy but unexciting. Bradford's passion for Marigold was expressed by a theme startlingly like "Limehouse Blues." The Puritan chorus had the richest music but it sang so often, intoned so many ''Amens" that at times the opera seemed more like a cantata, more suitable for a concert performance such as it received last spring in Ann Arbor (TIME...
...fountain as to a gory laundry. But modern Methodists, sincere as any one in accepting the allegory of the Blood Atonement, raise their eyebrows at the language in which it was couched. Currently a number of hymns by Watts and the Wesleys are slated for omission from a revised hymnal prepared by a joint commission of three Methodist Episcopal Churches (TIME, March 14). To young people they are "revolting," says the commission's Secretary, Dr. John William Langdale...
Tentatively included for the first time in the Methodist Hymnal, which will draw upon all faiths in its selections, are Poet John Greenleaf Whittier's "All Things Are Thine," and the hymn of St. Francis of Assisi which begins...
Declared Dr. Langdale to the Methodist ministers who heard the proposed changes: "You might as well make up your minds that there will not be universal satisfaction in the new hymnal...