Word: 16th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...street talk in Italian." In 1945, after being ordained a priest in the Congregation of the Holy Cross, he joined Notre Dame's faculty. In seven years, he was successively head of the religion department, executive vice president of the university and, at 35, Notre Dame's 16th president...
...spring tour this year, the Harvard Glee Club concocted a potpourri of all the songs it used to--and still does--know. The choice of works was excellent (ranging from the 16th to the 20th centuries); and, in fact, the whole program proved a fine prolegomenon to any future tour plans...
Greater variation marked the other half of the program, conducted by Elliott Forbes. Three motets by Victoria, Beveridge, and Randall Thompson displayed control and lightness, the Thompson work being of peculiarly obvious but quite appealing construction. Two 17th century "ayres" by John Hilton and two 16th century chansons by Claude Le Jeune were sung delicately, but the chorus's diction was not always good. In a more lyrical vein, two songs of Brahms and one of Schumann were wonderfully rich and fluid, the latter ending softly with well-controlled dynamics...
...York Socialite Robert David Lion Gardiner became the 16th, and seemingly the last, lord of the manor of Gardiner's Island. The seven-mile eastern Long Island isleta Gardiner fief since 1639 and perhaps the only English royal grant in the U.S. still owned by its original family-would fall to Yale University if there were no Gardiner heirs...
...love of the choral masterpieces of the 16th and 17th centuries that he instilled in the choir proved the crucial factor in the transformation of the Glee Club. In 1919 a number of choir members independently of him ended the tie with the instrumental clubs and asked him to be director of the new Glee Club. That spring they toured The East and Middle West and were acclaimed the best amateur chorus in America...