Word: choiring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Patten meeting with my full pay ($125 a week) and come out with a couple of dollars. I just couldn't seem to keep from giving it." Witness Lewis complained that Brother Tom said the money was going to be used for noble purposes-a mammoth choir loft to be raised and lowered by push button, a glass-enclosed baptistery similarly operated, a big electric Escalator running from nave to altar. But none of these things materialized. Mrs. Freeda Borchardt, once the Pattens' cleaning woman, explained forlornly that she and her husband had coughed up $2,800 after...
...next stop is Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia. Here, as in Longwood, a choir will accompany the Orchestra. The tour winds up on April 5, at Mary Washington College in Fredricksburg, Virginia...
...hear Paul Hindemith conducting is unforgettable. His "Apparebit" for mixed chorus and brass choir is a study in modern music; it was excellently executed by the Glee Club and Choral Society. The "Demon of ht Gibbet," a ballad for men's chorus, was beautifully terrifying. And when the composer turned around on the podium to lead an audience participation tribute to Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge and to "Frau Musica." Sanders Theatre became animated with three part canons...
Christ or Baseball? Singly and in little groups, sweatered and blue-jeaned undergraduates streamed onto the stage, filling up the choir chairs to await their turns. Hour after hour they kept coming. All night long, all the next day, all through the following night and half the following day, students poured out confessions of past sins and rededicated themselves...
Said one young man: "I have to confess that in the past I have felt undue pride in my membership in the Men's Glee Club, and tended to look down on members of the Gospel Choir." Sniffled a determined brunette: "I want to say this publicly so that those who hear me will know I mean business. I know it's mostly fellows who say they have impure thoughts, but girls have them too. And I want to apologize if I've ever tempted any of the fellows I've had contact with. I know...