Word: beaumont
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Anglican Beaumont. 53, took over St. George's in Camberwell early this year, he found that he was failing to draw the Teddy Boys and other loiterers off the street corners. So he decided to use a score he had been working on for several years to lure them with the kind of music they normally listened to and could sing. The last real folk Mass, he believes, was written in the 16th century by one John Marbeck, a convicted heretic "I took the liturgy of the Prayer Book, Beaumont explains, "and tried to regard it simply...
Over an eye-glazing bowl of punch based on a Spanish drink called "Blood" * Beaumont beat out his 20th Century Folk Mass last week for the benefit of his church servers, who clustered around the vicarage piano. Designed for use by a small orchestra, or combo, the Mass sometimes sounds romantic echoes of Sigmund Romberg (the Credo), sometimes switches to a "beguine tempo" (Kyrie, Agnus Dei), sometimes soars in the harmonies of the Negro spiritual ("0 praise God in his ho-li-ness") or thumps with a syncopated bass ("We praise Thee, we bless Thee we praise Thee, we bless...
...Beaumont regards his Mass purely as an occasional piece which can be used to "zip up" a congregation. Although it has not yet been performed at St. George's, it got a free-swinging reading in the U.S. last week by a six-man Brown University combo known as the Brown Brunotes, led by visiting Anglican Priest Michael Fisher. When Father Beaumont performs it in his own church, he knows just the kind of combo he wants: a small, zippy dance band, perhaps with some of the gutty quality of a Louis Armstrong. Guy Lombardo, he feels, would...
...Father Beaumont's recipe: Pour two bottles of Spanish red wine into jug, add two oranges two lemons and cucumber sliced, splash in one bottle of soda, lace with one-eighth bottle of brandy, drop in teaspoonful of Cointreau and two dashes bitters (or "anything like that") mix well and serve ice cold...