Word: chanting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chant of Croupiers. Next day bright and early, reporters were awakened at 9:30 by a ring of the telephone and a voice that said cheerily: "Good morning. This is the Sands operator. We have been asked to awaken you so you could get up and prepare for the wedding." In the Gold Room of the Sands, everything was ready. Newsreel cameras, TV equipment and flash guns lined the wall. Los Angeles Herald & Express Reporter Jimmy Crenshaw spotted a musician carrying a bull fiddle and made for Pressagent Freeman. "I got it in the paper already, boy," cried Reporter Crenshaw...
Masterpieces of Music before 1750 (Danish soloists and ensembles directed by Mogens Wöldike; Haydn Society, 3 LPs). Fifty brief selections, carefully performed and recorded. The first disk begins with the constricted Gregorian chant beginning with the 7th century, goes up to 16th century instrumental dances. No. 2 takes the story from large motets by Lassus and Byrd up through early Italian opera by Monteverdi and massive 17th century organ music. The final disk contains mostly Bach and Handel works. A scholarly collection, but with plenty of appeal to the ear as well...
...Chant. Once last week Ike passed up golf to go fishing. With Denver Mortgage Banker Aksel Nielsen, an old family friend, he drove out into the Rockies to South Platte River. On his third cast, Ike hooked a ten-inch rainbow trout, and by noontime he and Nielsen had pulled in a dozen. At that point Ike took complete command of the party. Driving to a nearby ranch house, he "borrowed" from the flustered housewife a slab of bacon, a pound of butter, a large paper bag, cornmeal, salt & pepper. Thus equipped, he moved on to a campsite where...
After lunch, Ike and Nielsen went back to the stream, where they alternated between fishing and shouting boasts at one another. Early in the afternoon, they were spotted by a passing busload of children, who shouted the old campaign chant: "We like Ike. We like Ike." Said Ike, at once pleased and displeased: "This is a hell of a place to hear something like that...
...evening ceremony of Havdalah (Separation), which ushers out the Sabbath, Music Director Helfman's voice rose in the sacred song of Elijah, who will herald the coming Messiah; in three concentric circles, their arms around each other's shoulders and waists, the men picked up the chant, swaying with the cadence. When the service ended and the lights came on one by one, many of these harddriving, hard-driven city men seemed to feel their Jewishness for the first time with a sense of privilege and joy. "I'll be back," said Manufacturer Edward Meltzer. "Even without...