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Generations of U.S. generals and lesser officers can still hear the thunder of that West Point organ-the thunder and sweetness that greeted them on their first tour of the Point and each Sunday in chapel. Braided veterans come back again and again to hear it and to talk to the thunderer himself. He is Organist and Choirmaster Frederick C. (for Christian) Mayer, one of West Point's major institutions. For 43 years, regardless of what changing taste in church music might dictate, Mayer chose such rousing processionals as Onward, Christian Soldiers and America, the Beautiful so that...
...expanding organ had more stops than the console could handle easily, and a new, four-manual console was installed. The chapel organ became one of West Point's points of interest. Organist Mayer's baby kept on growing. Thousands of pipes were crowded into the organ lofts, and the three basement rooms became filled with the complex wind and control machinery, e.g., five electric motors, coupler relays, etc. Besides the ordinary stops, Mayer acquired such theatrical effects as a cymbal crash, a tympani roll, a drum stroke. In 1950, a wealthy alumnus gave Mayer a second new console...
Military Paraphrase. So far, production has started on only a few of the prize "adjustable combinations,"* with their 34,000 contact points. Bugs still had to be ironed out. Organist Mayer and his friends, who had formed the Committee for Retention of Present Organist Until Completion of the Cadet Chapel Organ, pleaded that only under his guidance could the job be finished. President Eisenhower, who remembers Mayer from his own days at the Point (and whose son John sang in Mayer's cadet choir), ordered that the organist be kept on as a paid consultant...
Kiesler's "galaxies" are not startlingly beautiful, but they are more original than any art novelty of the past decade-including Picasso's ceramics, Giacometti's stick-sculptures, Matisse's chapel at Vence, Jackson Pollock's dribble-pictures and Juan O'Gorman's outdoor mosaics at the University of Mexico. Instead of painting single pictures, Kiesler has painted fragments of pictures, often irregularly shaped, designed to be hung in clusters according to definite geometrical schemes...
...began at 20 as a Baptist minister, became a newspaperman (A. P., New York World-Telegram) until free-lance success in the late '30s allowed him to devote all his time to his facile tales of slave trading,dueling and boudoir derring-do; of a heart ailment; at Chapel Hill...