Word: church
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...starlit night four years ago, in the ruins of Santa Cruz Church, the Manila Symphony Orchestra gave its first concert since the Japanese invasion. In the audience were eight G.I.s from Brooklyn who never forgot the concert or its conductor: Vienna-born Dr. Herbert Zipper, who had survived Hitler's Dachau and Buchenwald, and two of Tojo's Philippine hellholes...
Though he had done little to attract attention, Angel Herrera is not the kind of man to escape it. In 1947, he was handed one of the toughest church appointments in Spain: he was named bishop of Málaga...
With ups and downs, Alfred Nash Patterson and his ambitious Polyphonic Choir of Christ Church have been presenting rarely sung sacred music. Such a group is much needed in a community which spends most of its efforts on Bach's B-Minor Mass and Beethoven's Missa Solemnis. They were particularly welcomed Monday night when they gave Mozart's Great Mass in C Minor in its first Boston performance in Trinity Church. The crow which filled every seat and stood in every open space made this pretty clear...
More to the point, this was definitely one of the group's ups, and they performed the Mass with such success that its 160-odd years of neglect seem an unforgivable oversight. The only uncooperative figure was Trinity Church itself, which turned out to be an acoustical flop. It has no capacity for distributing sound throughout its Romanesque caverns, and if you were sitting as I was with the basses and tenors turned away from you, you scarcely heard them...
...changed ownership only once since 1800, the Gazette (circ. 9,200) has had eight different names and has suffered more violent changes. Gazette Founder Samuel Snowden and son Edgar pursued a, conservative editorial way until the Civil War. When Federal occupation troops arrested an Alexandria minister in church for refusing to pray for Abraham Lincoln, the Gazette cried out at the indignity. Angry Unionists burned the offices down, and the paper had to publish underground. When it finally made peace with the Unionists and emerged, the Gazette was still unreconstructed...