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...from being retired, Organist Woodman last week was the happy centre of attention in a great throng of his colleagues in Manhattan's Hotel Astor. In session was the 14th general convention of the American Guild of Organists which he helped found in 1896. To its 1,000 delegates he declared: "Modern music is going crazy. There is too much jazz, and jazz means dissonance. The standard of organ playing has greatly improved. The higher type music of such modern American composers as Horatio Parker, Arthur Foote and George W. Chadwick has superseded the old church music of comparatively...
Hastening off to Maine where he summers. Organist Woodman left the Guild members to their convention devices, which consisted of visiting churches with famed organs, listening to organ recitals, attending symposiums on organ playing. At a special service in his Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Bishop William 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...
Convened in Cleveland last week, the American Newspaper Guild: ¶ Approved (76½-to-47½)) affiliation with the American Federation of Labor, provided two-thirds of the Guild's entire membership approves. ¶ Went on record for a vertical union in the newspaper industry. ¶ Authorized its officers to work for "an independent political Labor party." ¶ Unanimously re-elected President Heywood Broun for a third term...
...Manhattan theatre season just ending produced an unparalleled number of social justice dramas, including: Odets' Awake and Sing!, Elmer Rice's Judgment Day and Between Two Worlds, the Theatre Guild's Rain From Heaven, the Theatre Union's Stevedore, Sailors of Cattaro, Black...
...father painted houses until Depression put the family on relief. Joe began to associate with one Harry Mathes, manager of a St. Louis shoe store who liked to paint pictures in his back room. In 1930 Joe got married and later won a 100 prize in the Artists' Guild show in St. Louis...