Word: choir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must to all men, change of voice came to Tommy Dix, but earlier than to most: when he was n. He was then singing alto in the Trinity Church choir. At Manhattan's High School of Music and Art, where he won a four-year scholarship, Tommy Dix was president of his class, president of the Science Club, captain of the fencing team. Two summers ago, because his widowed mother was ill, he left school, "to commercialize on whatever talent...
...debut gown last year, is now in the bank-account class. She has moved from Manhattan's Harlem to musical West 57th Street. Besides singing with the four major symphony orchestras (New York Philharmonic, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago), she made a triumphant concert return to Hampton Institute, in whose choir her voice began. This season Dorothy Maynor has engagements in 27 States, is making two big cross-country tours. Boxofficially she is not yet the peer of big-voiced Contralto Marian Anderson, who sells out Carnegie Hall. But Dorothy Maynor is just hitting her stride...
When Italy declared war on the Allies almost four months ago, Lorenzo Perosi, director of the Sistine Chapel Choir, locked himself up with a project in the Monastery of St. Benedict, 40 miles from Rome. Last week Musician Perosi had completed his self-appointed task, and waited for the Axis (or British) generals to finish theirs. Ready for the proclamation of peace was a Perosi-composed "grandiose Te Deum...
...Galilee, it would displace more water than any of them. It owes its cubic capacity to one austere little man-Bishop William Thomas Manning of New York. When he succeeded to the see in 1921, St. John's consisted of an abrupt stub: a Romanesque choir and crossing. Bishop Manning (with the aid of professional Money Raisers Tamblyn & Brown) infected New York City with a cathedral-building itch, scratched up some $15,000,000, transformed his Romanesque stub into a soaring Gothic pile. Bishop Manning will be remembered as a cathedral builder. He may also be remembered...
...choir's concert tours have enabled the 35 members of the troupe to throw up jobs as house painters, waiters, butlers and cooks, vacate their berths on WPA. To date the choristers have given 61 concerts at up to $1,500 an appearance, traveling in their own $19,000 bus, from which they once serenaded an astonished chain gang in Georgia. Last week Messrs. Settle & Kramer announced what they were going to do with their net at the end of this season and henceforth. They will provide 20 college scholarships for colored youngsters all over...