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Tokuno, who does much of MMV's research, says the Lutheran composers were some of the first musicians to write music that was "more entertainment style than restricted to the church." These "great Dutch music masters," including Heinrich Isaac and Josquin des Prez, were responsible for such innovations as homophony, homorhythms and playing tonally. Composers such as Tielman Susato and Pierre Phalez were also among the first music publishers and musicologists. These composers traveled throughout Europe, and their influence traveled with them...
Dennis Orsen's reasons for being at the festival are mainly evangelical. A balding Lutheran pastor in a pale suit, the peripatetic Orsen recently settled in nearby Steubenville and found the local culture as difficult to crack as a Zen riddle. Someone suggested he read James Wright. And has this helped at all? "There's one poem about football -- when I saw that, I said to myself, boy, that explains a lot of what I'm working with," he answers...
...obscure origins in a 1978 flood that leveled the Lutherglen retreat and recreational center along the Mill Creek in California's Angeles Crest National Forest. To prevent possible future disasters, Los Angeles County banned all reconstruction in the area. The center's owner, the First English Evangelical Lutheran Church of Glendale, took exception to the safety measure. Claiming that the county's action violated the Fifth Amendment, the church sued for compensatory damages. Almost eight years after that suit was initiated, the high bench, by a 6-to-3 vote, ruled in favor of the church...
...intense, longtime interest in ethics. Bowen is a 1949 graduate of Amherst College, where he studied history and philosophy (and starred at first base on the baseball team). His belief in ethical obligations underlay a major part of a commencement address he delivered earlier this month at Texas Lutheran College in Seguin, and he will return to the topic on May 24 at Hartwick College in Oneonta, N.Y., when he receives an honorary doctor of letters...
After 68 nominations and nine ballots, the 1,045 convention delegates elected as the ELCA's first national leader Bishop Herbert W. Chilstrom, 55, who heads the Minnesota district of the Lutheran Church in America, one of the merging denominations; his wife Corinne is a pastor in another, the American Lutheran Church. Chilstrom, who underwent cancer surgery in 1985, says that he intends "to spend a lot of time moving around the country to promote a sense of oneness...