Word: lifework
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Jesuit college at Woodstock, Md. for four years of theology. In his third year there, he was ordained, aged 28. He put in two years of theological graduate study at Gregorian University in Rome and various other centers of Catholic learning in Europe before taking up his lifework as professor of theology at Woodstock and editor (since 1941) of the learned quarterly Theological Studies. Thin, towering Father Murray is still the debater (and more subtly the actor) of his high school days. Lecturing to his classes of fledgling Jesuits at granite-grey Woodstock-where his major specialty is the Trinity...
Much of his music, by his own testimony, "derives from a time and place different than ours-from ancient principles and ancient cultures. The study of Eastern music is my lifework." A largely self-taught composer, Hovhaness owes more to the ragas of India and the folk dances of his father's native Armenia than to the European modernists under whose influence most U.S. composers are reared. In the streets of India and the theaters of Japan, says Hovhaness, he heard oblique echoes of his own work...