Jazz mass premier in Omaha blends Gregorian chant and modern beat
Frank Tirro, 25, wrote a jazz mass for trumpet two saxes bass and drums with chorus based on O Pater Excelsel. Omaha Symphony and Chorus premiere April 17 with possible renditions at University of Chicago. Critics praise its vitality while noting controversy around jazz mass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill W. Dean
Omaha
Neb
Frank Tirro
Tirro
Omaha Symphony Orchestra
Otto Sotnak
Woodlawn Emanuel Lutheran Church
Chicago
University of Chicago
Geoffrey Beaumont
St. George's
London
Norwalk
Joseph Levine
Ballet Theater
Omaha Symphony
Northwestern University
Evanston
Ill
Peter Palmer
University of Nebraska
Beaumont
St. Barnabas Episcopal Church
Frank
Episcopal Chapel
Disciples
Churches Seek New Styles in Modern American Worship
About 1,200 architects and church leaders prepare for a Pittsburgh conference to define how 20th century Christianity should be expressed through architecture. Theologian Theophilus M. Taylor will open with a talk on monolithic and modern church designs, as the old bell towers and frescoes give way to functional contemporary forms amid widespread experimentation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Cornell
Associated Press
Columbia University
Eugene Raskin
Boston
Arland A. Dirlam
Pittsburgh
Changing Face of Church Architecture Amid Rising Building Costs
As church construction spending surges past a billion dollars the meaning of sacred space shifts. Experts note the church building no longer shapes architecture, calling for a new contemporary expression while reforms and demands for education and recreation spaces alter design.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marvin P. Halverson
New England
Raskin
Hopewell Revival Begins at Hopewell Methodist Church
Revival services at Hopewell Methodist Church in Trinity run April 16 through 21 at 7 30 p m each evening led by Rev H Glenn Lanier of Montieu Avenue Methodist church The public is invited to attend
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Hopewell Methodist Church
Rt. 2
Trinity
David Bullins
H. Glenn Lanier
Montlieu Avenue Methodist Church
Watts Named to Tower Room Scholars at Union Theological
The Rev Dr Roy E Watts of First Presbyterian Church High Point NC is among 78 Presbyterian ministers chosen for Union Theological Seminary Richmond Virginia Tower Room Scholars Program. The yearlong effort funds intensive study in a Tower Room with daily faculty meetings and in residence for 12 days per cycle.
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Roy E. Watts
First Presbyterian Church
High Point
N. C
Union Theological Seminary
Richmond
Virginia
Gages
Tower Room
UTS
West Virginia
North Carolina
Appalachia
Connolly C. Gamble Jr
Gamble
Value Depends On What We Make Of Ourselves
A Reminder item notes a plain bar of iron worth five dollars, horseshoes ten fifty, needles three thousand two hundred eighty five, and balance springs for watches two hundred fifty thousand. It adds that a man’s worth follows his own actions, not his grandfather’s. Ben Johnson is cited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Johnson
Lutherans in North Carolina to study merger at state convention
Three hundred Lutheran ministers and laymen from across North Carolina gather for the 157th annual United Evangelical Lutheran Synod convention at St. Mark's church in Charlotte. Dr. Franklin Fry of ULCA will speak on the proposed merger with Augustana American Evangelical Lutheran and Finnish churches forming Lutheran Church in America in June 1962.
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Charlotte
United Evangelical Lutheran Synod of North Carolina
St. Mark's Lutheran Church
Franklin Clark Fry
New York City
United Lutheran Church In America
ULCA
North America
North Carolina
Augustana Lutheran Church
American Evangelical Lutheran Church
Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church
Detroit
Lutheran Church In America
Synod
F. L. Conrad
Salisbury
Ernest L. Misenehimer
J. Wilford Lyerly
Winston-Salem
Hoke H. Ritchie
Rocky Mount
Weeklong church meetings announced in High Point area
Dr. O Herschel Folger of East Orange New Jersey will lead a week of special meetings at High Point Friends on Quaker Lane. He has preached in Greensboro Whittier Indianapolis Wilmington and elsewhere with a wide educational background. The schedule includes Sunday at 11 o'clock and weeknight sermons at 730.
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O. Herschel Folger
Congregational Christian Church
East Orange
N. J
High Point Friends
Dr. Folger
Earlham College
Hartford Theological Seminary
Boston University School of Theology
Europe
Near East
Cuba
Jamaica
Mexico
Whittier
Calif
Indianapolis
Ind
Wilmington
Ohio
Folger
Quaker Lane
Cecil E. Haworth
Albertson Revival Under Way
Revival services continue at the Albertson Road Baptist Church led by Rev. Charles Osment pastor of Kirby Memorial Baptist Church in Gaffney South Carolina He will conduct the final services at 11 a.m. and 7 30 p m tomorrow.
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L. R. McNeill
Fairmont Park Baptist Church
Mr. McNeill
Harold B. Lightler
Pine Grove Baptist Church
Archdale
Highway 62
Frank McDaniel
Harry DuPrey Wood Jr
First Baptist Church
Leaksville
Conrad Memorial Baptist Church
E. Homestead Avenue
Florida
Mr. Wood
Wake Forest College
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
North Carolina
Kentucky
Arkansas
Alabama Baptist State Convention
Campbell College
Wake Forest College Ministers Alumni Assn
Albertson Road Baptist Church
Charles Osment
Osment
Kirby Memorial Baptist Church
Gaffney
S. C
A Moral Matter about Tax Time and Truth
Clergy members weigh tax honesty urging against deceit and evasion. They cite commandments and conscience, noting cheating the government equates to theft and false witness. The discussion centers on justice of taxes and personal moral obligation in payment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George F. Harkins
Luttheran
America
Washington
Cameron Hall
National Council of Churches’ Department of Church and Economic Life
Sam
Joe
John F. Kelly
National Catholic Welfare Conference
Msgr. Kelly
Bishop Baker To Visit St. Marys Church
The Rt. Rev. Richard H W Baker Episcopal Bishop of North Carolina will visit St Marys Church Sunday to confirm 19 new members and receive three others from another denomination. He will celebrate Holy Communion at 8 a.m and deliver the sermon at 11 a.m prior to confirmation. The loose offering at 11 a.m. will go to the Bishop's Discretionary Fund and a coffee hour will follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard HW. Baker
Diocese of
North Carolina
St. Mary’s Church
Baker
William Price
Job and Faith Tested In Suffering andDialogue
Newman Campbell presents a study of Job 1 2 19 13 26 and James 1 18 15 focusing on righteousness temptation endurance and divine sovereignty. The piece notes Satan testing Job with God’s permission and Job’s friends Eliphaz Bildad and Zophar counsel amidst grief.
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Job
Eliphaz
Bildad
Zophar
Division of
Christian Education
U.ba
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Levine
Presbyterian
Theophilus M. Taylor
James
Hopewell
Rev
Glenn Lanier
Union Seminary
Watts
Tower
By Faye Marks
High Point Youth For Christ
YMCA
Youth For Christ
Larry Emerson
Oak Hill
L. R. McNeil
Alfred J. Buescher
Satan
Jules Loh
New York
Caesar
Bishop Baker
St. Mary’s
Newman Campbell
Land of
God
National Council] of Churches of Christ
Dick Culler
Fred Swaritzheku
Yiwood
Thomas Stephens Haggai
Westchester
Country Club Drive
Our Lord
Madison Avenue
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