Word: choir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...largest Gothic church in the world was opened to its full length last Sunday. When the great grey curtains separating the new nave from the older crossing and choir were dramatically drawn back, the congregation of 10,000 in New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine saw an unbroken 520-ft. vista grander than that of any medieval cathedral...
Song is as immediate among the Welsh "as sight is in the eye," and How Green is eloquent with melody. Music is beautifully supplied on & off the screen by 80 members of a Welsh choir discovered in Los Angeles. When these singers were moved into the picture's expensive Welsh village in the California hills, some of the elders thought it was supposed to be an exact replica of their home towns in Wales. They made no bones about complaining of inaccuracies in the buildings, of names on tombstones of people who had never lived in their town. According...
When Turnblazer first moved into the town of Jellico, Tenn., on the Kentucky border (where Songstress Grace Moore once sang in a church choir), miners were fighting for subsistence wages. Operators, who included subsidiaries of U.S. Steel Corp., Ford, International Harvester, fought to keep wages down, keep Turnblazer's union from trespassing. The shock troops of the Harlan County Coal Operators' Association were "special guards," sheriffs and deputies...
Dvorak was the first symphonic composer to use U.S. Negro and Indian themes, which he usually Dvoraked into something pretty Czech. Still living is the man who gave him such tunes as Swing Low Sweet Chariot (used in the New World Symphony): Harry T. Burleigh, dapper, 75-year-old choir singer at Manhattan's St. George's Episcopal Church...
...ancient custom symbolizing the historic ties between Harvard and Middlesex county, the High Sheriff, Mr. McEiroy, called the morning exercises in Sever Quadrangle to order, striking the paltform thrice with his scabbard. He announced "The Meeting will come to order." Dean Sperry then offered prayer, and the University choir, directed by G. Wallace Woodworth, sang...