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...Bride's Trousseau. Most of these baroque horrors are gradually being dropped from congregational repertories and eased out of new hymnals. In England, Teacher David Holbrook and Composer Elizabeth Poston are preparing a new hymnal for use in schools (every British school starts the day with a hymn), and so far have found only 100 usable songs from the 10,000 or so contained in seven standard English hymnals. Two years ago, the Orthodox Presbyterian Church brought out a new hymnal that left out such traditional numbers as The Old Rugged Cross and Nearer, My God, to Thee...
...Deane Edwards, president of the 2,000-member Hymn Society of America, argues that "hymnody must be kept abreast of the life of the church.'' But in replacing Victorian flotsam, hymnal makers have cautiously steered away from abrupt modernization, or harmonies more discordant than Brahms's. Instead, they have subtly blended, like the bride's trousseau, something old, something borrowed, something...
...hymn should be a prayer set to music," says the Rev. Gerrit Barnes of Denver's Christ Church (Episcopal). "It should follow the idea of 'make a joyful noise unto the Lord.''' Ideas change about what is joyful noise, and what is just plain noise. Church musicians and their pastors are quietly revising the nation's taste in congregational song, and in the process are consigning a surprising number of quaint old favorites to oblivion, while searching oblivion for revivable classics. Dr. Charles C. Hirt, professor of church music at the University of Southern...
...their grim and hypocritical portrayal of man's sinfulness. Most clergymen today wince at the thought of having to lead their faithful in Rock of Ages ("Foul, I to the fountain fly/ Wash me, Saviour, or I die") or Mrs. C. F. Alexander's all too vivid hymn entitled The Circumcision...
Loyal Disciple. The rebel radio voice frenziedly called for the "people" to pour into the streets "to destroy the remnants of the Kassem regime." Between exhortations, martial music filled the air, especially songs extolling Arab unity, and Alahu Akbar (God Is Great), a favorite hymn of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser...