Word: anthem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a special prayer read by the dean of St. Paul's, organ and choir burst into Churchill's favorite American anthem, The Battle Hymn of the Republic. It was sung at his express command and in homage to the honorary U.S. citizenship granted him in 1963. It was also symbolic of his lifetime dream of a closer union between the two nations whose blood flowed in his veins. The martial thunder of the old abolitionist hymn, with its stern New England pieties, may at first have sounded startling in Christopher Wren's graceful English Renaissance church...
Only once did Piatigorsky accept an offer to conduct. "Half dead from rehearsals," he recalls, he mounted the Denver Symphony podium and to his horror was informed that he first had to conduct the national anthem. "Somewhat bewildered, I gave a sign to the drummer and let him go on for an unreasonably long time. Majestically I raised my hand for a crescendo, and only when it reached its peak did I recall the national anthem." Returning to his cello, he found it like "a piece of furniture I had never seen before . . . Its import seemed pale in comparison...
...Nigerian National Anthem...
...Sukarno will allow. KLM has resumed twice-weekly flights to Djakarta. Djakarta's once large Dutch community, depleted when 200,000 Dutch left Indonesia in 1958, is growing again. Dutch newspapers and candies have reappeared in major Indonesian cities, and Djakarta radio recently played the Dutch national anthem to emphasize that no hard feelings remained. The music will have to get awfully loud, however, before Dutch businessmen forget Sukarno's expropriation of Dutch property-to the tune of $1 billion...
William F. Russell, visiting professor of Music, will conduct. The major work on the program is Bruckner's Mass in E Minor for eight-part chorus and wind orchestra. A small chamber choir will offer a group of motets, and the full chorus will sing Purcell's anthem, "My Heart is Inditing," accompanied by a string ensemble with harpsichord continuo...