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...suffocating triteness and over-weaning propriety of this work result largely from Perera's failure to make his music serve any broad dramatic purposes. The lines sung by Pelagia and the monk Nonnus, her father, maintain a sickly melancholy which seems quite inappropriate to her sins, the supposed point of it all. At the same time, when she appears, surrounded by suitors, it is always to the same cheery dance tune which first accompanied the banter of the two monks. Because Perera's popular melodies and Cole's humor fail to guide the opera's ideas and dramatic progression...
...Piano of James Walker, is close to Johnson, if with more reserve, for both possess a nostalgia like the piano (not the better-known music) of Aaron Copland. Finally, the sentimental harmony and florid lines of the traditional song style appear in the Three Songs of James Freeman, sung capably by Jean Lunn...
...perfectly. Though he laces his act with impossible puns and games ("That's the way De Gaulle bounces," or "Under the spreading psychiatry"), nothing diminishes the pure delight of his tour in a thousand dialects through the world's locker rooms, or his Begin the Beguine as sung by a matinee idol who can do everything but carry a tune. His routines include six chimpanzees and ten singers (the humans are taller), but mostly Kaye depends, as he always has, on his audience, elicits the responses he wants as surely as if he were playing a keyboard instead...
Written for chorus and full orchestra, the cantata parallels the psalms sung for the ancient Tenebrae service, in which the mystery of Christ's sacrifice is sung to diminishing candlelight, until at last only one candle remains-the Light of the World. The colors of the music suggest the gathering shadows, and Poulenc gives it a timeless serenity by weaving into it ancient liturgical forms along with angular modern music...
...Functional Parish." Slum priests freely adapt the worship of the church to fit the needs of their parishes. Boston's Father Sotolongo offers his Latin-American congregation plenty of liturgical splendor, with vestments, incense and sung Masses. Father Cromey in San Francisco holds evangelical preaching-and-singing services in housing projects and on street corners. Pragmatists rather than radicals, these priests are searching for new concepts of what the church should be. The Rev. James Jones, 36, of Chicago, for example, believes that Protestantism must create a new kind of "functional parish" uniting city groups sharing common interests. Father...