Word: chanting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trumpets and the procession re-formed and wound its way to the Chapel of Edward the Confessor, patron of the Order, to lay the gold on the altar there. The Dean delivered himself of a brief address and the choir sang the 68th Psalm to a harmonized Gregorian chant. The Order then marched in solemn procession around the Abbey and with the laying of a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the "most impressive ceremony the old Abbey had seen for centuries" was over...
...authorities now look forward to a better season. Following the psychology of roulette it seems certain that many hundreds of thousands of people will assemble in the famous salons to listen to the monotonous chant of the croupiers: "Messieurs, faites vos jeux." "Les jeux sont faits." "Rien ne va plus." "Zero!" Then will follow the usual clatter of "blancs, rouges et plaques" accompanied by the suppressed groans of the gamblers, except, of course, the tittering individual in the corner who had five francs on zero...
...tonight's concert follows: Fair Harvard March, "Our Director", Bigelow Overture to "The Calm of tab Cailf", Bagded Walts, "Imperial", Strauss Ballet Egyptien, Luigini Allegro non troppo Allegretto Andanto sostanuto Andante expressive allegro Serenade, Drigo Three Dances from, "Henry VIII", German Morris Dance Shepherd Dance Torch Dance Hindu Chant from Sadka, Rimsky Korsakow Cortege from "The Queen of Sheba", Gounod
Mendelssohn's ever favored Elijah, intoned by the regular festival chorus of 325 and an added band of 80 men and women singers from the National Cash Register Company, with 48 professional vocalists to chant t he solo parts so that the quartettes were themselves fair sized choruses-that began Cincinnati's homage to Apollo for 1923. It was prodigious-for mere magnitude. Imagine a dozen soprano voices singing a trill in unison, as they did. The performance was very good, and received universal praise. It deserved...
...Annual Banquet of the Harvard Club of that city. A short ride south brought the organization to Canton, where the fifth concert was given in Cleveland, to which the Club had returned. There in the Masonic Hall and accompanied by the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra a special rehearsal of "Chant de guerre" was held...