Word: finne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When Russia invaded Finland, Author Joyce wrote: "The most curious comment I have received on the book is a symbolical one from Helsinki, where, as foretold by the prophet, the Finn again wakes...
During the past 35 years, he has trouped with his choir from California to Rome, where he was a great favorite with Pius X. In Milwaukee his playful choir boys stuffed the trombones and tubas, for an accompanied number, full of newspapers. The resulting tone, says Father Finn, "sounded like everybody was playing a fine-toothed comb. I had to ring the curtain down so we could fix things." In Regina, Saskatchewan, Finn found himself without a baton. A gentleman, "a true gentleman," says Finn, "took the rung of his chair and whittled it down so that it would...
...Boys. Father Finn's choir boys now number devoted generations. Finn choristers have included Orchestra Leader Ray Heatherton, and Radio Announcer Milton Cross. One boy who failed to make the Paulist grade was radio's famed Morton Downey, who had an unsuccessful audition in 1915. "His voice," explains Father Finn, "must have been changing or something." Recently, Father Finn has been traveling, giving the benefit of his experience to Catholic choirs all over...
...Father Finn attributes his transcendent choral effects to the cajoling rather than the browbeating of his talent. His rehearsals are continuously good-humored. He is a genius at making singers relax. For martinet choirmasters Father Finn has nothing but contempt. Writes he, in his effulgent Hibernian prose: "Sometimes [these conductors] seem content to fabricate their figures in ice, hankering to muse in temperatures below zero, phrasing frozen notations with icicle-batons. From the arctics and antarctics which they explore, they bring a refrigeration that benumbs artistic sensibilities. Many an auditorium is converted into a 'thrilling region of thick-ribbed...
Above all, Father Finn believes that choristers should enjoy what they sing. "After many years' opportunities to observe the strange processes of men's, minds," he declares, "I find the indeliberate travesty of groaning the praises and promises of Jehovah an inexplicable phenomenon...