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...will be the setting of the first English Mass in the U.S. on Aug. 24, when more than 10,000 priests and laymen will gather for the annual North American Liturgical Week. But church renewal has been most actively supported by the man whose episcopal motto is Ut Cognoscant Te (That they may know thee), Boston's Cardinal Cushing...
Lacking the normal supply of G.I.s. Saigon's garish night life virtually flickered out. At one B-girl boîte, a lone visitor nursed his beer while a Vietnamese mademoiselle opened his pack ol cigarettes, another refilled his glass, and a third sighed, "These are bad times...
VERDI: FOUR SACRED PIECES (Angel). Just before he wrote Falstaff at 79, Verdi composed the Ave Maria and Laudi alia Vergine Maria; he finished the Te Deum and Stabat Mater at 83. Together they make a magnificent and devout peroration to the lifework of a man who was a freethinker in his youth. The Te Deum includes a most urgent prayer, and Verdi asked that the music be buried with him. Carlo Maria Giulini leads the Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus (240 voices) in a stereophonic recording that matches the soaring splendor of the music...
...what Béjart did to Faust was something else again. Suppressing his chronic urge to spoon a little musique concrète into the score (out of veneration for Berlioz), Béjart saved himself for the "illustrations"--as he calls his scenes and dance sequences. Gargoyles dance a twist to parody the Last Supper, and the "sons of the Danube" show up in SS uniforms. The corps de ballet wear costumes that come close to perfection in their imitation of nudity, and their dances have an angular brutality. Faust appears as the prisoner of a giant glob...
...French businessmen and officials. The occasion: a $1,000,000 science-and-industry Exposition Française, the biggest business fair ever held in Montreal. Besides showing off everything from surgical instruments to a subway car, France sent along spectacular displays of 10,000 flowers from the Côte d'Azur, 30 tapestries and an exhibition of recent French...