The first 25
years…a bit of a timeline
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YEAR |
WORLD EVENTS |
LITURGY AND MUSIC |
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1963 |
John XXIII dies; Paul
VI elected; Nov22, JFK assassinated |
Dec 8 Sacrosanctum
Consilium issued |
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1964 |
Beatles on Ed
Sullivan; Tonkin Gulf incident |
Biblical Hymns and
Psalms
Lucien Deiss (WLSM) |
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1965 |
Sound of Music wins Best Picture
Oscar. |
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1966 |
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1967 |
Woodstock, Hair opens
on Broadway, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band; massacre at Son My and My Lai |
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1968 |
Tet offensive; Civil
Rights Act, Chicago Demo. Convention,Martin Luther King and RFK assassinated;
Nixon elected |
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1969 |
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1970 |
Jesus Christ
Superstar is
born as studio rock opera;
National Guard kills 4 at Kent State U. |
NALR born in
Cincinnati; "A Community Mass," by Richard Proulx (GIA) |
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1971 |
Godspell opens off Broadway,
popularizing “Day by Day;” “Morning Has Broken” by
Cat Stevens; Bernstein’s Mass premieres at the Lincoln Center dedication |
“I Am the Bread
of Life”by Suzanne Toolan, S.M. |
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1972 |
Nixon reelected |
"Mass of the
Bells" Peloquin, GIA; |
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1973 |
Watergate; Agnew
resigns |
Music in Catholic
Worship published,
Roman Missal promulgated in English |
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1974 |
Nixon resigns |
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1975 |
Fall of Saigon |
Earthen Vessels St Louis Jesuits
(NALR); Worship II (GIA) |
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1976 |
US Bicentennial
celebration; riots in Soweto |
Eucharistic Congress
in Philadelphia, “Gift of Finest Wheat”; National Association of
Pastoral Musicians (NPM) is founded |
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1977 |
Death of Elvis; Star
Wars,
the movie, not the SDI; |
Glory and Praise
Volume 1
released (1977) |
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1978 |
Paul VI and John Paul
1 die, John Paul II elected; Sadat, Begin, and Carter reach the Camp David
accords |
First NPM Convention,
Scranton PA; Conry releases Ashes with NALR; Remember Your Love by Dameans (NALR) |
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1979 |
USSR invades
Afghanistan; Iranian students invade
US embassy in Tehran, take hostages |
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1980 |
Hostage rescue fails;
Ronald Reagan elected; John Lennon murdered |
With Open Hands by Marty Haugen
(PAA) |
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1981 |
Attempted
assassinations of President
Reagan and Pope John Paul II; AIDS conclusively identified |
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1982 |
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1983 |
US invasion of
Grenada; Lech Walesa wins Nobel Peace Prize |
Liturgical Music
Today
published; |
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1984 |
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Mass of Creation Haugen (GIA) |
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1985 |
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Order of Christian
Initiation (RCIA) official; |
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1986 |
Marcos flees
Philippines, Aquino becomes president; |
Worship [3rd Edition] (GIA) |
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1987 |
Les Miserables opens in NY |
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1988 |
Iraq uses chemical
weapons against Iran; George Bush elected; PanAm 103 destroyed over
Lockerbie, Scotland |
GIA introduces Gather contemporary hymnal |
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1989 |
US invasion of
Panama, massacre at Tienanmen Square, Berlin Wall falls |
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1990 |
Release of Nelson
Mandela; Iraq invades Kuwait; |
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1991 |
Jan-Mar Operation
Desert Storm; coup foiled in USSR;
Soviet Union collapses |
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