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...town a great deal of trouble. Zealous merchants, who had put out $3,000 to decorate Independence in splendid' Christmas trappings, fidgeted last week when the revolving display on the courthouse cupola refused to revolve. Then the lights on the town Christmas trees would not work, and the choir boys, who were to sing carols over the public-address system, turned up some discouragingly deep bassos. But Independence's worst frustration came from the President's time schedule. After 24 hours, most of which he would spend closeted with his family, he would fly back to Washington...
Shortly after her father's death, Marian Anderson was "converted." Her mother is a Methodist. But Marian was converted in her father's Union Baptist Church, largely because the late Rev. Wesley G. Parks was deeply interested in . music, loved his choirs and encouraged any outstanding singer in them. At 13, Marian was singing in the church's adult choir. She took home the scores, and sang all the parts (soprano, alto, tenor, bass) over & over to her family until she had learned them. Since work is also a religion to her, Miss Anderson considers this...
Salt Lake City Choir (Sun. 11:30 a.m., CBS). Excerpts from Handel's Messiah...
...Anglican Church of St. Aidan's at Leeds, England, the vicar was preaching the evensong sermon. In the choir stalls behind him two dozen choirboys sat still as church mice. The absence of fidgeting and whispering was not just good British behavior: the choristers were absorbed in juvenile thrillers-which the vicar had furnished...
First of the two sets is the Mozart Requiem Mass, a work which despite its important position in the composer's creations and among all the works in the Mass form has been available heretofore only in an inferior and abridged Victor version by the Pennsylvania Bach Choir. In this Cetra recording of the Requiem a superb orchestra and tremendous chorus combines with such soloists as Ferrucio Tagliavini, thrilling young tenor who will soon appear with the Met, to produce an effect altogether superior to that of the American set. Particularly outstanding is the recording technique: the more than...