Word: olivetan
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...long and varied line-up of forgotten composers, such as the polyphonic wizardry of Ludwig Senfl, composer to the court of Maximilian I, the mystical motets of Martin de Rivaflecha, chapelmas-ter at the Cathedral of Valencia, and the Rabelaisian merriment of Adriano Banchieri, abbot of an Olivetan monastery. Its most ambitious undertaking was The Play of Daniel, a 12th century music-drama that was unearthed in the British Museum. Elegantly staged in medieval setting and dress in a Manhattan church, Daniel was a solid off-Broadway hit of the 1959 season, won further acclaim during a 40-perform-ance...
...which is far and away the leading branch of Christian monasticism. The non-Benedictine Trappists have established eight thriving new monasteries in the U.S. since the end of World War II, increased in number from 293 to 1,018. In the past decade three other congregations-the Camaldolese, the Olivetan Benedictines and the Carthusians-have established their own way of life in the U.S. Father Joseph Brennan, prior of the Regina Coeli Olivetan Monastery at Lake Charles, La., says flatly: "There has been a Benedictine renaissance in America in the last five or six years...