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...cases as much as a thousand years after Christ. The reformers argue that some of the symbolism and ceremony that was meaningful to a 12th century Roman is lost on a 20th century African. Mission priests have asked to use more native music and dances as part of the rite; an American liturgist even suggested the use of Negro spirituals in some services. "The Gregorian chant is splendid," said one English bishop, "but the church is neither a theater nor a conservatory of music...
Nothing annoys Conductor Otto Klemperer quite so much as applause. He takes his bows almost grudgingly, his craggy face expressionless, his eyes apparently unseeing. To Klemperer, musicmaking is almost a mystic rite upon which an audience should never intrude. Last week Klemperer's annoyance was severe: in the U.S. for the first time in nine years, he led the Philadelphia Orchestra in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall-and roused the crowd to an ovation the like of which conductors rarely hear...
...LITURGY. The council will not abolish Latin as the liturgical language of Western-rite Catholics, but will probably let regional or national councils of bishops make vernacular translations for the parts of the Mass specifically addressed to the congregation-the Epistle and Gospel, for instance. At the request of their priests, some bishops will push for a drastic shortening of the breviary, the collections of psalms, verses and readings that ordained clerics must recite every day. Missionaries may get more authority to incorporate native customs and religious practices into baptism, marriage and funeral rites...
Past the 104 white flagpoles outside the United Nations building last week rolled a fleet of limousines delivering diplomats to an autumn rite as familiar and often as shrill as the first day of school: the opening of the U.N. General Assembly. Settling down to business, the delegates welcomed the U.N.'s four newest members-Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Rwanda, and Burundi-whose admission boosted Assembly membership to 108; Algeria and Uganda will be up for admittance later in the session...
Shostakovich said that he was an admirer of the earlier works of that old Russian revolutionary Igor Stravinsky, who will visit Moscow this month: "I like his Petrouchka, Rite of Spring, the symphonies, and all the ballets except the last. His latest works do not seem to belong to him." As for his own works in progress, to which Shostakovich would they belong? The composer gave a hint when he announced that he is about to begin his 14th Symphony (the 13th is all but complete). It will be dedicated to Soviet achievements in space...