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...color of a patchwork quilt. The fact that the University Choir chose to perform them in St. Paul's Catholic Church in its fall concert Sunday night contributed to making the piece a spectacle. The Vespers form a very complex whole--they consist of a response, five psalms, a hymn, and the Magnificat, together with corresponding plainsong melodies which precede and follow each movement except the hymn. In addition, each of the eight movements is rhythmically heterogeneous, as if each voice part had its own time signature, and even that changed every measure...
...with the violins producing elegant duet passages in the Magnificat. The strings contribute warmth, but most of the color came from the wind section, a combination of two oboes, English horn, bassoon, and trombone. Lisa Crawford's organ part was solid, even though her choice of registrations in the hymn made the accompaniment too prominent...
...KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE. Frank Marcus' comedy hangs out the dirty laundry behind the scenes of a BBC soap opera On the air, Sister George (Beryl Reid) is a habitual hymn hummer, but once her loving listeners tune out, she stalks around her lesbian household as a gin-and-cigar-flavored tyrant with whiplash language...
...trend among Negro coeds and career girls to wear their hair "natural" instead of attempting to unkink it by "conking"-rinsing it with lye and binding it with handkerchiefs. Yet for every Negro who flaunts his identity, a hundred try to camouflage it. Advertisements in the Negro magazines still hymn Nadinola skin bleach: "Lightens and brightens skin...
...Hymn to Battle. By early last week, 73 Deputies were back in Brasilia, and since all but three of them were members of M.D.B., the vote went overwhelmingly against the government. With that, the Deputies began their preparations for a siege, which soon took on the overtones of a carnival. They set up cots, organized a "resistance command" to guard the doors, considered registering a protest with the U.N., even started tinkering with a patriotic hymn...