Word: palestrina
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...converted to a religion that I felt more meaningfully engaged my spirituality because it more meaningfully engaged my humanity - and, as strange as this sounds to my atheist friends, because it more meaningfully engaged my reason, not just my senses (although I'm as much a sucker for Palestrina and Michelangelo as anyone else). What gets lost amid the Catholic Church's reputation for obscurantism is the fact that the Catholic religion, with its earnest contemplation of Christ's human as well as divine nature, stresses reason as the turnstile to faith and the great good that belief...
...Palestrina, Missa O Rex Gloriae Adolphus Busch Hall...
...classes here are just so different, even for music concentrators. The objective at NEC is to give as little work as possible so you can practice six hours a day....They expect you to know how to play the violin and if you don't know when Palestrina died its not a big deal...
...each Sunday, she and her family drive half an hour to attend the Solemn High Mass, most of it in Latin, offered by St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church in Great Falls, Va. Like some catacombed underground movement, they take out old Gregorian missals for translation and sing Palestrina instead of Peter, Paul and Mary...
...Francisco Opera chorus before joining Sarah Caldwell's Opera Company of Boston as an apprentice conductor. Returning to the Bay Area in 1979, he won a reputation by leading the small Berkeley Promenade Orchestra (now the Berkeley Symphony) in such unlikely concert-opera ventures as Hans Pfitzner's Palestrina and Janacek's The Excursions of Mr. Broucek...