Word: cantors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Donald H. Cantor--P. B. H.; Harvard World Federalists; Student Council; Policy Advisory Committee; Winthrop House Dance Committee, Chairman; Crimson Key Coordinating Committee; Union Usher; Winthrop House Committee Chairman; Harvard Liberal Union; House Softball...
Young Eddie Cantor acted in Alliance-sponsored plays, Arthur Murray learned to dance there, and Morris Cohen discussed philosophy in the Comte Synthetic Circle. Radioman David Sarnoff and Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver got encouragement from sympathetic teachers...
...Music at 14, an accomplished musician whose professors agreed that they had nothing further to teach her, and set off on her own, giving concerts throughout Europe. But Landowska had no desire to dazzle concert audiences in the accepted manner: "I have always been in revolt." Her beloved cantor of Leipzig, Bach-and his contemporaries-had vanished from the piano repertory. Instead, performers who believed that the old master had no notion of the keyboard's capabilities served up a hybrid fare under the names of Bach-Liszt, Bach-Tausig, or Bach-Bülow. "They put Bach, Mozart...
...Eddie Cantor. 81. Still opposed to space ships and six-shooters, Nila Mack begins her 23rd year of presenting witches and fairy godmothers. Her popular racfio program: 1. Uncle Billy's Whiz Bang...
...celebrated the end of the seventh year-the ceremony of Hakhel-for the first time since King Agrippa presided over the rites in 42 A.D. This year, since none of the Israeli government leaders is strictly Orthodox, the head of the state was represented by Jerusalem's chief cantor, who read the Torah from the top of a truck. As he finished, old men blew on the double ram's-horn. Pilgrims wearing rich prayer shawls cried out in jubilation, dancing and clapping their hands to the jangling of tambourines...