Word: choir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Settle, trailing 19 dusky members of his Gethsemane Baptist Church, marched into Cleveland's station WGAR and asked permission to sing a few spirituals. The Rev. Settle and his flock were only fair. But to Spiritual-Fancier Worth Kramer, young white program director of WGAR, the colored choir presented a chance to try his hand at arranging Negro music. Adding 16 voices to Settle's original 19, he drummed his arrangements into the musically illiterate group by rote, drilled them for weeks before he put them on the air. Their success was immediate and overwhelming. Broadcasting from...
...Sisters of the Good Shepherd (1796-1868), Gemma Galgani, Italian stigmatist and mystic (1878-1903). Thrice the cardinals begged the Pope to grant the canonization. Twice the Pope told all to pray for God's guidance. Third time he declared the petitions granted. Silver trumpets blew, the choir burst into a mighty Te Detim, and all the bells of Rome rang...
...kind in the Northwest. Bach fans heard an orchestra concert, an organ recital, the Mass in B Minor, the St. John Passion, in the University's big Northrop Memorial Auditorium. If the singers were not yet ready for comparison with such seasoned Bachsters as the Bethlehem, Pa. Choir, they were nevertheless remarkably good...
...bouncing checks wherever she went; and Loie Fuller, whose tour was supposed to be keyed to the ludicrous U. S. progress of her friend Queen Marie of Rumania. Other attractions launched in the U. S. by Hurok: Basso Feodor Chaliapin, Contralto Marian Anderson, Dancer Mary Wigman, the Vienna Choir Boys, the Piccoli Theatre, Pianist Rudolf Serkin, Hindu Dancer Uday Shan...
...Collection, which he bought at half-price just after the market crash with borrowed money guaranteed by his trustees. There prospective "buyers" who felt inclined to make an impressive gift to the museum could "buy" anything from a 17th-Century wrought-iron fire set ($50) to a complete stone choir screen ($150,000). When a "sale" was made, the gift was taken upstairs and installed in an appropriate period setting, complete with a neat brass plaque honoring the donor. Fiske Kimball's gift shoppe has less than $150,000 worth of unredeemed art left...