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Palestrina is represented by the aforementioned Supplicationes (a litany to the Virgin with each stanza punctuated with a "Kyrie") and by Confitemini Domino, based on the 106th Psalm. Both are works of quiet persuasiveness and the voices seldom rise above piano. Variations or emotional intensity are expressed by slight dynamic alterations and by changes in the intervals between voices...
Last week a special interfaith committee of Protestants, Jews and Catholics formally okayed the last stanza in place of a spoken prayer. If all goes according to plan, New York's schoolchildren will soon begin each day, just as most of their parents once did, by singing...
...Colombia schools, Roman Catholic teachers now teach children a 20-stanza song called El Protestantismo. Sample...
Died. Franklin Lee Stevenson, 63, who, when down on his luck in 1924, hit upon an inspiration and a career as the "undertakers' poet laureate," at a starting fee of $1 a stanza; of a heart ailment; in Chicago. His idea blossomed into a service called the Poet's Study, which circulated Stevenson's booklets to more than 200 mortuaries, which in turn passed canned condolences to mourners. His own self-authored epitaph closes: "Ah, there's not a thing to fear...
...stanza in the 1951 verse likens "Lionel, Lehman, Littauer, Lamont" and several other buildings to "a litter of pups conceivably aired by Hollis and Stoughton...