Word: hymning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...direction are stilted, things have a too-well-scrubbed look, and the characters frequently appear stiff and selfconscious. In the main roles. Nightclub Singers Dandridge and Bellafonte, making their movie debuts, are at their best when the picture gives them an opportunity to sing a lullaby, a church hymn, or a folk song...
...Nazi jail, signed the "confession of guilt" on behalf of the German churches. Neither this, however, nor their anti-Nazi activities during the war meant that they were secret adherents of the democracies all along. Two of Dibelius' sons, Franz and Wolfgang, had been killed in action. A hymn Dibelius wrote while they were at the front sounds like a companion piece to Deutschland iiber Alles (beginning: "Surrounded by the power of the foe. arise, thou German land . . ."). Dibelius' essential objection to Naziism, like Niemoller's, was not that it was authoritarian, but that it tried...
...amount of administrative church work, on split-second schedules. If a visitor exceeds the time allotted for an interview, the bishop is apt to consult his old-fashioned pocket watch, arise and politely excuse himself. He opens the watch each morning at 7 to start his day (with a hymn and prayers with his small staff), and it ticks tirelessly through his appointments until 10 at night, when he goes to his study to write. His books, both on devotional and historical subjects, are written in a conversational style which has made some of them close to bestsellers...
...compositions written considerably after the sixteenth century were, in fact, performed, but the late Renaissance idiom so strongly pervaded the evening that I, for one, found myself judging these other works by 16th century standards. Thus Verdi's setting of Dante's Hymn to the Virgin Mary seemed maudlin after the more ethereal fervency of Palestrina. I do not know whether Verdi's melodramatic climaxes and sensuous cadences are inherently unsuited for religious music, but their operatic association have certainly made them so for me. Even Mozart did not fare well in such company, perhaps because the firmly established tonalities...
...nothing to the play. The film version, however, brings the play two dividends: notable music by Alex North and, more important, searching close-up shots of the principals, Showing the great properties of the movie medium, the close-ups endow the scene in which Miss Waters sings a comforting hymn with a beauty which only the camera could capture. Yet even the close-ups sometimes betray the script, making, lines aimed at the balcony of a play house seem unnecessary and over-wrought...