Word: chorales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thomas Manning told the organists there is a "disastrous" lack of congregational singing in the U. S. The Guild announced the winners of two $100 prize contests: Chicago's Porter Heaps for an anthem, A Thanksgiving for All Created Things, and Scranton's Leon Verrees for a choral improvisation on O God, Our Help in Ages Past. Finally, Guild members united in indignantly rejecting a proposal that they affiliate with the American Federation of Labor...
Dolores Del Rio is definitely a beautiful lady. Pat O'Brien is said to have good points. Edward Everett Horton can be quite amusing. Busby Berkeley has been known to create clever choral monstrosities. With the above ingredients, tempered by a dash of Glenda Farrell, we have "Caliente" which aims to be a heady cinematic cocktail; it should be no shock to learn that like mice and men, movie magnates are also visited by the ganging agley of plans. In short: "Caliente" misses fire...
...most conspicuous of his bewildering variety of civic activities. He organized the Strawbridge & Clothier chorus, still rehearses it Monday nights and conducts its winter and summer concerts. He has been guest conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Orchestra, the Philadelphia County Prison Band. Composer of hundreds of choral works and organ numbers, the president of Strawbridge & Clothier is often seen jotting down melodies on sheets of ruled paper he carries in his pocket. He insists that the elevator girls in the store take elocution lessons so that they may sing out "Third Floor, Ladies' & Misses' Underwear...
...color and Princess Ingrid is passionately addicted to larkspur, a plane piled high with larkspur flew over from London to decorate the wedding church, Stockholm's 13th Century Storkyrka. Leading a concert of Danish and Swedish songs before all the wedding guests, Conductor Sven Lizell of the Stockholm Choral Society dropped dead of heart failure...
Such a huge choral festival was the ambition of Boston's bustling Emma Fisher who has never forgotten her chagrin of 14 years ago when she went to Switzerland as a delegate to an Anglo-American Music Conference. There she discovered that Britons could sing and that her U.S. companions could not. The Britons boasted of their many choral societies and forthwith choral singing became bustling Emma Fisher's platform. Last spring she visited Detroit, talked to influential citizens whose enthusiasm grew strong when the Juilliard Foundation offered to lend $5,000, when Mrs. Frederick M. Alger agreed...