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...offers Episcopalians a "Once-a-Year Opportunity-only 159 Poplin Knockabout Cassocks Reduced to $12," and Cox Sons & Vining advertises a "Utility Anglican Cassock" for $22.50. Priests would presumably be relieved to receive NOWILTEX clerical collars that "never need laundering," while those with large parishes would appreciate a "SACRA-KIT," the "portable sick-call set for dignity and convenience in administering at the bedside" and equipped with removable crucifix, candle holders, candles, linen cloth, holy-water bottle, and SPECIAL ABLUTION CUP ($28.75). A chrome-finish confessional counter ("numbers 1 to 9,999 turn noiselessly...
...Ramiro switched to the University of Southern California, the next semester won a tuition scholarship, the Harvey Gaul Prize, Philadelphia's Eurydice Chorus award and a $500 BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.) prize for a woodwind trio. He also set to work on an orchestral piece called Sinfonia Sacra, submitted it to the annual George Gershwin Memorial Contest. The judges: Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos, Musicologist Carleton Sprague Smith, Composers Aaron Copland, Morton Gould and Peter Mennin...
After three months with the 45 entries (all sent in anonymously), the judges picked Sinfonia Sacra, by Ramiro Cortés.* Last week, in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, Conductor Mitropoulos played Cortés' work with the Philharmonic-Symphony. Its first movement (Kyrie) was a slightly stolid development of an oId Mexican tune in slow tempo; its second (Sanctus) was as reedy and antique sounding as a drafty baroque organ; its finale (Dies Irae), driven by busy motoric rhythms, included some fine furious flights of imagination and a paraphrase of an ancient Gregorian Dies Irae...
...Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary to set up a Program of Advanced Religious Studies under which 20 to 25 young religious leaders from all over the world will spend a year studying and getting to know each other. CJ In a new encyclical titled Sacra Vir-ginitas Pope Pius XII emphasized the superiority of virginity to marriage for clergy and religious orders and for those of the laity who would consecrate themselves entirely to God. "Sacred virginity and perfect chastity consecrated to the service of God," the encyclical said, "certainly is for the Church one of the most precious...
...getting back its looted art, mostly from an Austrian salt mine where the Nazis had hidden it. The rescued treasures included such famed paintings as Bruegel's Blind Leading the Blind, Titian's Danae, Joos van Cleve's Adoration of the Magi, Palma Vecchio's Sacra Conversazione, Tiepolo's Neptune Offering Gifts to Venice...