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...have. During Poland's 16-month awakening, the priests and parishioners of a church in central Warsaw used to sing together joyfully: "O Lord, please bless our free fatherland." On the first Sunday after martial law was declared, the words of that hymn were changed back to those traditionally sung when the country was under foreign domination. "O Lord," the congregation sang, "please return us our free fatherland." ?By Thomas A. Sancton. Reported by Richard Hornik and Gregory H. Wierzynski/Warsaw, with other bureaus
Weill: The Unknown Kurt Weill (Nonesuch) Treasures from the The Threepenny Opera composer, sung by Teresa Stratas...
...guess that's part of Christmas too, since there's this song on the Firestone album, sung by Julie Andrews, called "I Wonder as I Wander" (or it might be "I Wander as I Wonder," which would be an equally difficult maneuver). That idea pretty much sums up what it's like to rifle through a department store Christmas Music collection. And unless an Act of God has struck the record racks, there should be plenty more copies of the following collections...
...something of a surprise, then, when it comes time to listen to the music. Why, this is no hitman or rapist perverting the meaning of Christmas! Instead, it sounds like someone held a microphone to your father as he shoveled snow one day last Janaury and sung a few tunes under his breath. You get the feeling that someone called Slim one day and said, "Slim, if you're not busy, why don't you take a half-hour or so and come on down to the studio and record a Christmas album?" And Slim...
Thomson has always been a man of broad artistic sympathies. Four Saints astonished its first listeners with its folksy, hymnlike tunes drawn from the composer's Baptist background and sung by an all-black cast. Although the 1928 work has dated badly-a little of Gertrude Stein is, after all, a lot of Gertrude Stein-it is still a landmark, something that served to define what "American" was between the wars...