Word: hymns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...bright fruit: a catch that begins "He tickled her fancy and told her his tale" is sure to come out "And he fancy-tickled her tail." Jonathan Swift was an eager catch lyricist, but the biggest tease of all was Henry Purcell, the saintly master of the High Church hymn. After hours, Purcell forsook cantatas in favor of catches and "hockets"-a trick of song in which a voice may boldly interject one word of a verse. In Purcell's Jack, Thou'rt a Toper, the hocket turns his message into "Jack, thou'rt a cuckold...
...didn't know that Georgians are very anti-Russian." Goodman said. "Apparently singing that Russian song in Tiflis was like playing the Battle Hymn of the Republic in Little Rock...