Word: choiring
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...five decisive years. Chapin emerged from the hills with portraits, as sharp and solid as plowshares, of the hard-bitten farm people among whom he had lived. Shortly after his return, in Manhattan, Chapin happened to see a young Negro girl named Ruby Green singing in the Hall Johnson Choir and did her portrait (as Ruby Greene-absent-minded Painter Chapin misspelled her name-she now has a small part in the Manhattan revival of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess). His work is as clearly in the American grain as that of Thomas Benton and Grant Wood, and happily...
Tightpants battles on alone, aided only by miracles. His Olga Song ("Olga-whose eyes were violets / Olga-whose tears were pearls . . .") is a smash hit, partly because Olga comes "down" with a heavenly choir and sings it herself. His Olga Lasenka Symphony is hailed as "as great as Sibelius' Finlandia." But Tightpants is not present when it is performed in Carnegie Hall. Burned to death in a nightclub fire, he has joined Olga in the homelandia of a Wilkes-Barre grave...
Vaughan Williams: Mass in G Minor (Fleet Street Choir, conducted by T. B. Lawrence; London). A massive and elegiac work, written in 1923 by the dean of British composers. Through masterful maneuvering of block harmonies and medieval modes, he produces an antique flavor appropriate to the subject without once sounding musty...
Sitting near the 45-voice choir, staring modestly down at the grass when speakers praised him, was Dr. Luther Wesley Smith, 56, executive secretary of the American Baptist Assembly. Dr. Smith had many occasions to avert his eyes, for in last week's celebration the Baptists at Green Lake were honoring...
Help Wanted. In Johnson City, N.Y., the All Saints' Episcopal Church bulletin ran an advertisement asking for choir singers, Sunday-school teachers and "Wor shipers (300) - Fill pews at 8 and 11 ; exp. unnec., but exp. wrshprs get better results . . . Pay same for all jobs but can be collected only from treasures up in Heaven...