Word: gregorian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...following program will be rendered: Organ Prelude. Choral Prelude, Brahms Andante, Franck Organ Postlude. Great Fugue in G minor Choir Numbers Bach Hymn of Thanksgiving--Netherlands Folk-Song. March of the Magi, Horatio Parker De Profundis, Gregorian Chant...
Those who think Mr. Thomas Lawson's political advertisements better reading than the Monthly ought to look at Mr. C. V. Wright's essay, "A Lost Art". He champions the old Gregorian music like a Sir Kay; to him all church choirs not consecrated to the old plain chant are "merely formed for the use of tenors and fat women." Wagner, he says, "dissatisfied with the figure of the historic Christ, transformed him into a German prig with a nasty-minded distrust of feminity". That's Parsifal! There's plenty of go in the Monthly still. Mr. Pichel...