Word: choir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small prig I must have been in those days," muses Q, "conscious of some sublime but undefined mission." When the choir of ancient St. Petroc's Church chanted: "And thou, Child, shall be called the prophet of the highest," Q would blush and drop his eyes. He devoured Shakespeare, Jules Verne, Sir Thomas Browne, Shelley, boy's annuals...
...walls of solid granite). And when reproached for slowness its builders are content to recall that Chartres Cathedral took two centuries to finish. But most of St. John's delay-other than financial-involves a gigantic architectural indecision and eventual about-face. In 1911, after the choir and sanctuary had been built in heavy Romanesque, a new architect (the late Ralph Adams Cram) decided to go Gothic. Today St. John's is Gothic fore & aft, with a great chunk of Romanesque amidships. The odd combination of Gothic's aspiring points and lacy frets with Romanesque...
...first performance of The War God, a cantata for orchestra and choir. Although they found it next to impossible to understand the words-from a poem by Briton Stephen Spender-most of the listeners in Manhattan's CBS studio were genuinely moved by the rich orchestration. After the performance, the cantata's composer, gaunt, chestnut-haired Richard Arnell, tall (6 ft.), 27-year-old Briton in a grey flannel suit, coolly explained: "It goes beyond simple pacifism by only presenting the facts and offering no moral conclusions...
Mary Margaret, the Trumans' 21-year-old daughter, was her companion in this quiet life. Blonde, clear-complexioned Mary Margaret is a junior at George Washington University, a member of Pi Beta Phi Sorority, a serious student of music. At home in Missouri she sang in the choir of Independence's Trinity Episcopal Church, traveled to take part in summer productions of the Denver Opera Company. In Washington, she had much the same sort of dates, interests, enthusiasms as other U.S. college girls...
...silver bombers .that left part of Regensburg in flames. Next day, the Gauleiter was buried -as one of the victims of the raid-and the Fischers breathed again. The bishop generously attended the funeral service-"The mass was at its beginning. He climbed the circular stone steps to the choir, sat down at the organ, and pulled all the stops. Through the immense structure surged a storm of music, a roar as wild as the sound of the Danube." But the people of Regensburg only hung their heads, and "it was evident that if, in the long night in which...