Word: hymning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heavens' vicar and Winter Light's parson are as different as England and Sweden: both have problems all right, but Sellers' troubles are worldly ones. Or are they? In the last scene Sellers is nowhere to be seen, but his quavering voice is heard singing a hymn as he orbits the earth, the first Bishop of Outer Space...
...found that they could even transfer the raw materials of music, sequences of notes, from one style to another, with only minor changes. Thus of the six works by the members of Moevs' pro-seminar which were performed Monday, three used themes variously derived from the beginning of the hymn "Victimae Paschali" Christ lag in Todesbanden. An unshaken sense of coherence, occasionally lapsing into flat uniformity, bound each piece tightly into a unit...
...best of the new arrangements is Tranquilizer, an ode to Milltown. Opening as a hymn, the theme is restated as a Bach fugue, transformed into the Halleluia Chorus, and returned once again into a hymn. The exercise shows to advantage the range of voices in the group, their versatility, and their style. Most Dunce songs are a parody of some music form, but few do it as well as this one. Cool Mover, a rock in roll parody that might fool a WMEX disc jockey is not new, but makes a fine addition to this collection...
...spinning across the pavement, while firemen battered him with streams of water so powerful that they could strip bark off trees. There was the Negro woman, pinned to the ground by cops, one of them with his knee dug into her throat. There was the white man who watched hymn-singing Negroes burst from a sweltering church and growled: "We ought to shoot every damned one of them." And there was the little Negro girl, splendid in a newly starched dress, who marched out of a church, looked toward a massed line of pistol-packing cops, and called...
...Penny declares, "and God the same as Mussolini, and Italy and the Fatherland less than God but more than my yellow bear." School is a hodgepodge of religion and Fascism. The children sing Ave Maria with a lily in their right hands; then they bawl out the Fascist hymn, switch the lily to their left hands and give the Roman salute...