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...govern Holy Apostles and handle disputes, the planners set up a joint council. Music proved troublesome, so the church alternates Catholic chants and contemporary music with the Episcopal hymnal. Barton and Gross take turns preaching and presiding at services and assist each other during baptisms and confirmations. Holy Apostles has developed into a thriving congregation of 300 members, two-thirds of them Catholic. One reason it has not grown faster is that it expects worshipers to do pastoral work; most are active visiting hospitals and prisons and in other part-time ministries. Says Episcopalian Carolyn Pollie, a mother of four...
Drury, an extremely talented senior with a penchant for contemporary music, interpreted the piece with an utterly compelling, almost demonic intensity. His virtuosity and technical facility excelled in explicating every facet of the sonata, from the darting melodic leaps in Hawthorne to the Alcott's hymnal simplicity. Even the liberties he took in tempi and dynamics sounded authentic and convincing. Ives himself said of the Hawthorne, "It is not intended that the metrical relations...be held too literally." Louis Cooper was also excellent in his performance of the flute solo which unexpectedly concludes the final portrait of Thoreau...
...dozen new compositions of his own in honor of United Nations Day. Princess Margaret and Prime Minister Edward Heath were among the Ellington loyalists who heard the choir of the Royal College of Music and Swedish Soprano Alice Bobs sing lyrics never to be found in the Anglican hymnal. "Is God a three-letter word for love," they caroled, "or is love a four-letter word...
...freewheeling Sunday services, though Catholic in ritual, are heavily Black Baptist in flavor. Music Director Alexander Rankins, a Negro, pounds an old upright piano, leading the al-tarside choir in standard Negro spirituals and other numbers from three books on the piano: The Catholic Mass, The Baptist Standard Hymnal and Gospel Pearls. Father Putnam talks about the meaning of humility?"A humble man must be strong. Jesus taught us that" ?and recommends a play that some of the neighborhood's angry young blacks are presenting in the Dashiki Project Theater, for which the parish supplies space. The Mass closes...
...Teilhard de Chardin, Bonhoeffer, Barth, Kung and Tillich. One of his closest friends was Jesuit John Courtney Murray, and he frequently attended Mass, where he was fascinated by the changes in the liturgy and delighted to find Martin Luther's A Mighty Fortress Is Our God in the Catholic hymnal. He liked good singing and good preaching...