Word: bells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...VOICES THAT LIVE. Steve Bell presents recordings by Ernestine Schuman Heink, contralto...
...limestone were used in its massive walls. The National Shrine is 459 ft. at its longest point and 240 at its widest, has a capacity of 6,000 people. The $250,000 organ is a memorial to deceased chaplains and members of the U.S. armed forces. The 329-ft. bell tower cost $1,000,000, raised by the Knights of Columbus. Two statues of the Virgin by Sculptor Ivan Mestrovic dominate the north and south walls of the church. Above them rises a mosaic dome of blue, red and gold, topped by a gold-leafed steel cross...
...frame supporting a graduated series of hardwood strips with a row of tubular resonators attached. But when she started to flail away with both wool and rubber-tipped mallets, Marimbist Chenoweth proved herself a virtuoso. Scampering from one end of the instrument to the other, she produced flurries of bell-like tones in a surprising dynamic range. As for the piece itself, it proved to be tuneful, crisply rhythmic, shot through with jazz echoes and a spirit of jaunty sophistication. It proved again that Composer Kurka had one of the most promising original talents in U.S. music...
...Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). An all-Gershwin show with Ella Fitzgerald, Vic Damone, Marge and Gower Champion, Polly Bergen...
...York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, intent on establishing an independent Republican identity in his try for the presidency, seems to assume as much. Said he in a recent speech: "Our people are looking for a sense of direction and purpose." In agreement is Chicago Industrialist Charles Percy (Bell & Howell cameras), who last month led a committee that set G.O.P. goals. Predicted Percy last week: "National purpose will be a more important issue in the 1960 campaign than in any previous peacetime campaign...