Word: choiring
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...Utah Centennial next week with parades, dances, music, speeches and religious services, thousands of non-Mormons will crowd the bunting-hung streets. They will stare at the multi-towered Mormon Temple, marvel at the acoustical wonders of that famed and enormous Quonset hut, the Mormon Tabernacle, where the Mormon choir thunders out hymns. But what will most awe them will be the spectacular manifestations of Mormon diligence and industry...
...series, when all nine of Beethoven's symphonies and two of his piano concertos will be presented under Dr. Koussevitzky. The final series, like the first, includes works from Haydn to Hindemuth, with the Festival chorus under Robert Shaw, who last brought his talents before University audiences with his choir concert at the Music Symposium in May, directing one concert which is to feature the Mozart "Requiem...
...Strong-Man Perón's wife (see LATIN AMERICA). Another is the regime's conviction that it enjoys the blessings of the Vatican. At High Mass last Sunday in Madrid's biggest Jesuit church, just before the elevation of the Host, I heard organ and choir strike up Franco's national anthem while the congregation stood at attention or sank to its knees...
...longtime church organist and head of the conservatory of music at the College of Wooster (Ohio), Professor Gore divides the church music he scorns into two broad classes. One kind is "soft purrs from the organ, a gentle humming from the choir, hymns sung slowly and glueily and ... a maudlin ditty played sotto-voce on out-of-tune chimes," the whole being calculated to "lull the listener into a dream state." The other kind is erotic music calculated to excite the listener into a state of unholiness...
...music, thinks the professor, has infiltrated the Protestant service from start to finish: "The organists play pieces either transcribed literally from secular sources or written in imitation of them. . . . The congregational hymns in widest use recall the rhythms of the beer garden and the dance pavilion. . . . Most of the choir anthems and canticles are the grandchildren of French opera, piano pieces and military marches...