Word: capella
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Headaches in a Convent. Each day follows much the same pattern. Chapel is held at 8 a.m. Breakfast follows. Then campers have two hours of a capella singing (usually including a Bach chorale or two) under Father Wasner. After lunch, Father Wasner gives a lecture on musical history, and directs a pickup orchestra and the singers through 16th-18th Century choral works...
Featured in the second part of the program was a capella chorus by Norman Lockwood from a text by Walt Whitman. In 1938 it was awarded the World Fair choral composition prize. Other numbers included four choruses from Offenbach's opera "La Bella Helene," folk songs arranged by Dvorak and Delany, and three Bach chorales...
...combined clubs will also present an a capella chorus by Norman Lockwood from a text by Walt Whitman, which was awarded the World's Fair prize for choral composition in 1938. Also included are four choruses from Offenbach's opera "La Belle Helene", folk songs arranged by Dvorak and Delaney, and three Bach chorales...
...stars travel alone, like the sun. Many are paired, the two members revolving around each other like the ends of a spinning dumbbell. Such bright stars as Capella, Spica, Castor, Mizar (a Big Dipper star) and Algol (the "Demon Star") are binaries (doubles). Some stars occur in groups of more than two. Astronomers estimate that one-fourth or more of all the stars in the sky are doubles or multiples. Last week astronomers heard of a pair of stellar Siamese twins...
Lyle Ring will direct the Simmons College Glee Club of fifty voices, the two soloists in the "Stabat Mater," and an a capella group of 14 voices, which will sing the other solos...