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GUMMIDGE: You're on your way. For your final exam, read and commit to memory the 23rd Psalm Jargonized by Alan Simpson, president of Vassar College...
...both the pageantry of the occasion and the musical distinctness of the two choruses. Many passages in the Vespers depend on the juxtaposition of the choruses and on a dialogue between them which can not be totally convincing with the two choruses right next to each other. Also, the psalm tune in the Nisi Dominus was disappointingly inaudible. But these are among a very small group of disappointments in what was in every respect a tasteful and powerful performance, particularly impressive in the freedom from meter that the choir attained...
GUSTAV HOLST: A CHORAL FANTASIA/ PSALM 86 AND GERALD FINZI: DIES NATALIS (Everest). An opportunity to compare two widely diverging paths in modern vocal music. Hoist is sophisticated and eclectic: his bold Fantasia has a concerto-like role for the organ along with choral and solo sections; in the Psalm, he spins a gossamer a cappella prayer. By contrast, Finzi's quiet music comments on the lyrics, in this case Metaphysical Poet Thomas Traherne's musings on the innocence and beauty of children. Tenor Wilfred Brown's impeccable diction helps to make this a delightfully accessible, intimate...
...your story on the Book of Common Prayer [Dec. 31], you credit modern scholars with "drab, bureaucratic writing" that renders the 23rd Psalm: "The Lord is my shepherd: therefore can I lack nothing." The "blame" lies not with T. S. Eliot et al. but with Bishop Miles Coverdale, who wrote the psalm that way in his "Great Bible" of 1539. When Archbishop Cranmer drafted the first Prayer Book in 1549, he used Coverdale's version of the Psalter; that version is still used in British and American Prayer Books. The King James Bible, of course, was not issued until...
Somewhat less felicitous is the new Psalter, which can also be used by churches next May. A modernization of the King James translation of the Psalms prepared by a team of Anglican scholars (among them: T. S. Eliot), it suffers from the same kind of drab, bureaucratic writing that mars the New English Bible. In the 23rd Psalm, for example, "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want" now reads, "The lord is my shepherd: therefore can I lack nothing...