Word: chants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next, Georges André, veteran hurdler, made his way to the President's box, lifted up his right hand, led the hosts in a chant of national allegiance and chivalry...
...Flemish text, next to the Latin Words, gave to the faithful an opportunity to follow the ceremony in all its details and to seize its full meaning, which was a fervent outpouring of piety, of thanksgiving and supplication. The proprium of the mass was sung in plain chant by the admirable Cathedral choir under the direction of the Abbe Van Nuffel; the ordinary was the polyphonic Mass Resurrexti from Max Springer, particularly adapted for stately celebrations." At the public hall, Cardinal Mercier received the first instalment (1,200,000 francs) of a huge purse which is being collected...
...organist for today's program, which contains several classic as well as modern selections, will be Mr. Archibald Sessions of New York City. The program in full is as follows: Sonata in F minor Mendelssohn Invocation. Musette Dandrieu Prelude Clerambault Ciacona Pachelbel Andante Cantabile Tschalkowski En Bateau Debussy Chant du Soir Karg-Ellert Choral, "Now thank we all our God," Karg-Elert Scripture Reading. Prelude and Fugue in E minor Bach Melodie in E Rachmaninoff Scherzo (Fifth Sonata) Guilmant...
...which in the popular mind is the symbol of all that is most sacred to the British aristocracy, threw open its doors last week to some fifty odd sons of toil and bade them welcome to its Saturday luncheon. For one short hour, at least, the muezzin did not chant his "procul, o procul este, profani," from the holy doorway; and as a consequence marquises and masons hobnobbed in a state of democratic conviviality...
Then followed a second chant by the choir, and a speech of greetings on behalf of other colleges, universities and learned societies by President Angell of Yale, at the end of which he gave President Eliot a bundle of testimonials from many institutions of learning throughout the country...