Word: choir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Medieval and Renaissance Choral Music (Choir of the Pius X School of Liturgical Music, conducted by Mother Georgia Stevens, R.S.C.J.; Victor: 12 sides; $6.50). As glowing as a rose window, these early church melodies are sung to perfection by Mother Stevens' famed female choristers. (The Pius X School trains liturgical teachers chiefly, since women are ordinarily not supposed to sing in Catholic churches.) As result of a mix-up in pressing, however, Tenor Melchior (see above) displaces the choir on one record...
...News, oldest U. S. magazine devoted to art, last week, with a new choir of angels, became a thick bi-weekly instead of a thin weekly, reduced its annual subscription from $7 to $4.50. Among its new backers: International Business Machines President Thomas J. Watson, Marshall Field III, archangel of the New York tabloid...
...this concert it will join with a chorus of women from Duke University, the Harvard Glee Club, the Duke University Glee Club, and the State Teachers College Choir and Choral Socity in a mass performance of Handel's Messiah...
...single Victor record are impressive motets by Palestrina and Durante (17633) moderately well sung by the Augustana Choir under Henry Veld....And for Wagner fans, there is a new pressing of the overture to Die Meistersinger played by Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra. This sort of stuff is right up Stokowski's alley. He gives a brilliant, bang-up performance of the prelude to the third act of Lohengrin, on the fourth side...
...network music this side of the Monroe Doctrine boundary line. Congressmen don't even need the help of Dr. Gallup to sense that Jeanie's light brown hair has turned gray in the last two months, and Old Black Joe has long been a member of the angelic choir. Just to make sure he stays there, the government has decided to start a criminal anti-trust suit against ASCAP, but those who think that this may mean tuneful radio music again are in for a long wait...