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...year-old Copland could be considered the top U.S. composer, the small stature of his colleagues had something to do with it. His technical competence far outshone his inventiveness. His first popular success, El Salon Mexico (1936), was full of Mexican folk tunes. He borrowed folk and hymn themes for his ballet scores (Billy the Kid, Appalachian Spring) and his movie music (Our Town). The Third Symphony, which Boston heard last week, varied from tenderness to brassy choirs which led a Boston Post critic to call it "Shostakovich in the Appalachians...
...judge "Night and Day" by this scene alone. The rest of it isn't on quite as high a level. From the opening on the Yale campus with Grant conducting the bulldog song to the end in the Yale Chapel when the Glee Club sings "Night and Day" hymn-like, while Grant and Miss Smith reunite under the trees, the picture is a model of inanity and dullness. The one cause for thanks is that nobody let the Warner Brothers in on the fact that Porter studied music at Harvard...
...continuity writer has an opportunity to express very clearly and forcefully the dogmatic ideas behind Catholic belief in the Divine Maternity or the Sacramental Presence of Christ. . . . We do not argue, but we sing a beautiful hymn which has come from the pen and from the heart of a composer whose life has been intimately touched by this great mystery...
...Cadurcum (Cahors). The brawling Counts of Toulouse held it in the days when Italian money lenders flocking to Cahors made "caorism" a synonym for usury. The Bishops of Cahors, who held Mercuès longest, built a fortress there; and under its battlements rode robber barons, Knights Templar and hymn-singing pilgrims to Rome and Jerusalem. Henry II of England led his armoured warriors past Mercuès and Thomas à Beckett paused there on his way to become governor of Cahors. By the reign of Louis XIV the rich bishops had turned the fort into a château...
Every night at 10 o'clock, the Shoalers hold a candlelight service in the spirit of their hymn...