Word: choiring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...educated at Ohio's Kenyon College and the Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge, Mass. He was dean of Trinity Cathedral in Newark from 1941-48, spent the next three years as professor of pastoral theology at Manhattan's General Theological Seminary. Handsome, jovial "Lichty" Lichtenberger, onetime choir boy, football player and still a devoted Milwaukee Braves fan, holds a solid middle ground between high and low church. He is also known as a wheel in the ecumenical movement. When he heard of his election in Miami Beach, Bishop Lichtenberger went for a swim and wryly told his wife...
Harvard and Radcliffe Musicians and artists have been invited to participate in the newly-organized religious arts program at The First Church in Cambridge, Congregational. Auditions for the church's new motet choir will be held Monday evening at 7:30. Plans are also under way for a program of religious art exhibits during the year...
Mahler: Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection" (Emilia Cundari, Maureen Forrester, Westminster Choir; New York Philharmonic, conducted by Bruno Walter; Columbia, 2 LPs). An invaluable record of a mammoth mixture of mysticism, romanticism and folklore by a composer often rated alongside history's greatest, conducted by his disciple, close friend and most inspired interpreter...
...week Msgr. Henri Alexandre Chappoulie, bishop of Angers, came out solidly for funerary equality: henceforth his diocese (about 120 miles south of Paris) will permit only one class of funeral. (Exception: if the dead held an important place in the community, in which case "more priests or a bigger choir than usual" might be in order.) Specifications for the bishop's standard funeral will correspond to the undertakers' Class 4-two priests, one cantor, two choirboys, no deacon or archdeacon, no draperies or crape, six candles on the altar and eight at the catafalque. The church fee will...
...Amos as contest time drew near. Every seat in Jerusalem's Hebrew University amphitheatre (capacity: 2,340) was sold well in advance, 300 policemen handled the crowds, and all over the country radio sets were tuned in. With a blare of trumpets, a swell of voices from the choir, and a chanting of prayers, the contest began. Sample questions...