Word: choir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Platoon six came forth with an acapella choir to sing some original songs by Richard Roban and cop first place among the eight skits. Competition was so close for the first prize award of being first to chow for a week that the company morale officer, Lieutenant Herbert Fields, who acted as judge, was unable to decide among the offerings of the sixth, fifth, and seventh platoons. A poll of the entire company the following morning, however, decided in favor of the "Singing Sixth...
When the critics made up their minds, they had ruled out Roy Harris' "agricultural" Fifth Symphony (TIME, March 8), Aaron Copland's melodramatic Lincoln Portrait, William Schuman's timely but tiresome Prayer-1943, Morton Gould's featherweight Spirituals for String, Choir and Orchestra. The award went to Manhattan-born Paul Creston, 36, for his neat, rather brittle, and relatively old-fashioned First Symphony...
...Britain is taken over by the Russians, the plane slid down. Briefly the public eye caught the Archbishop in a characteristic pose. In an open-air chapel, once the Shah's garden, he celebrated field mass. A portable organ played; a U.S. servicemen's choir sang. The hands of the Archbishop held aloft in benison were speckled red with the bites of Iran's hungry sandflies...
...nothing else, Saturday's musical venture in the vicinity of Sanders Theatre proved conclusively that Secretary Hull's Good-Neighbor Policy should remain strictly international. Two days ago the Radcliffe Choir and the Pierian Sodality led respectively by G. Wallace Woodworth and Malcolm H. Holmes, invaded the hidden recesses of Brunswick, Maine, and when they again crawled into the open before an audience, they were accompanied by a bewildered Bowdoin College Glee Club and its frantically gesticulating conductor, Mr. Frederic Tillotson. I trust that the experiment will not be repeated...
...Prohibition that brought Mencken perhaps his richest experiences and inspired perhaps his most uplifting prose. One day he went with Publisher Alfred Knopf to hear the Bach Choir at Bethlehem, Pa., and "our tonsils became so parched that we could barely join in the final Amen." Rushing frenziedly to a strange speakeasy, they found themselves without a card of introduction. Mencken did not hesitate. Before the eye at the peephole he held his music score. The eye read...