Word: choiring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...symbols, Charles H. Taylor, Henry Charles Lee Professor of Medieval History, was "invested" as Master of Kirkland House by President Pusey last night. Finding the term "installation' 'inadequate, Taylor said he felt that the ceremony was more like an investiture, especially with the long, flowing robes, the ever-present choir, and the attendance of a "baron," or college master, from Yale...
Behind the Music. In West Berlin last week, the touring choir was greeted by 2,500 Berliners, many of them Mormons themselves. On the station steps, a German Mormon choir burst into the great Mormon hymn, Come, Come Ye Saints, and the Americans joined in to thunder the final phrase: "All is well! all is well!" Next evening in a modernistic gymnasium, they stood scrubbed and friendly before 3,000 paying customers. Thunderous applause greeted the Battle Hymn of the Republic. After that, the choir ran through its religious repertory, from a semi-spiritual (Listen to the Lambs...
Critics treated the group kindly all along the way, even in choir-heavy England, although many felt that such a large chorus should devote itself to large important works instead of the motley programs it sings. For these, Conductor J. Spencer Cornwall has his answer ready Our singing is for people, not for critics " Adds Assistant Conductor Richard Condie: "Some of the things we do are certainly not great music, but we do them because there is something behind the music. If our sole purpose were to be a great musical organization there would not be so many older people...
Some Misunderstanding. The 80-year-old MopnoagTabernacle Choir has been familiar-to U.S." radio listeners for 26 years, but it had never toured abroad, largely because of cost. One problem: most of the choir members-including lawyers, clerks, filling-station attendants-would have to get leaves from their jobs. But the current tour (estimated cost: $800,000) was finally made possible by benefit dances, banquets, concerts and outright solicitation. To cover any remaining deficit, the wealthy church will dig into its own treasury. And employers, whether Mormons or not, gladly gave their employees leave...
...Choir members feel that their tour is building friendship for the U.S. and understanding for their faith. Said one singer: "When people see we're human beings who put our pants on one leg at a time, there'll be less misunderstanding of our church." But there is still some confusion abroad. "If," said one girl singer grimly, "anybody else asks me how many wives my husband has, I'll scream...