Word: populars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Despite popular rumor, you need not be a budding Shakespeare or prodigious newsgatherer to become a member of the CRIMSON. Anyone with a glimmer of interest and a potential talent for making or developing pictures can avoid the treadmill of the news and editorial competitions by becoming a CRIMSON photographer...
...Folk Mass," the product of one Fr. Geoffrey Beaumont, which has recently been recorded by the highly competent orchestra of Frank Weir (who is a sort of British Percy Faith). The Anglican service has been provided with music more usually associated with the world of TV variety shows and popular erotic ballads. Fr. Beaumont professes to write in the spirit of the old polyphonists, who wove popular tunes of their day into their masses. Most people in England, he argues, are responsive only to the kind of music purveyed on the mass-consumption mediums. What better way to enliven...
...churchmen have been appalled ... but most of them are enthusiastic," the Musical Times was gravely wounded in its austere sensibilities. In the the lead article of its December, 1957, issue, the Times editorialized with scholarly ire, "The trouble arises at the present day because of the cleavage betwen 'popular' and 'serious' music, a cleavage unknown in earlier times." But the editor's revulsion could not be long held in check: "A certain kind of popular music is nowadays inevitably associated with the fetid atmosphere of a nightclub, dance hall or cabaret and its emphasis on cheap, moronic sexual allurement...
...Times is right. Popular music evokes too many sensual associations to be much good as stimulus to meditation, spiritual or otherwise. The situation is aggravated on the recording by the arrangements of Peter Knight, although Mr. Knight has obviously done his best to keep a straight face. The chorus croons Kyrie Eleison over a lulling beguine rhythm, as bongos patter softly and violins execute Viennese glissandos. The whole idea has strong overtones of a collegiate hoax, but Fr. Beaumont has apparently convinced many people that the matter must be approached with deadly seriousness...
...former dictator faced the music last week in Colombia, and it was not a pretty tune. On trial by Colombia's Senate and charged with using the presidency for personal enrichment was General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 58, deposed in 1957 by a popular revolution. If the Senate decides that Rojas is guilty, it can deprive him of "civil rights," e.g., the right to vote, and it can remand him to the Supreme Court for trial on criminal charges. If the charges stick, Rojas may find himself behind prison bars...