Word: hymnals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Protestant Episcopal hymnal there are as many hymn tunes by Noble as by Bach...
Prime mover of the drive for classical church music is cherubic, inexhaustible Dr. Clarence Dickinson, 71, director of the School of Sacred Music at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. He has written or arranged some 500 anthems and chorales, edits the standard Presbyterian Hymnal, has trained some 300 U.S. church music directors. Now, as chairman of the American Guild of Organists' service committee, he spends his spare time telling organists how to needle the clergy into planning services with good music instead of merely "decorating" them with "soul-saving hymns." Dr. Dickinson pours most of his philosophy into...
...bare-walled rooms on the street floors of two houses on West 40th Street - offered the thinnest of soup and sermons. But scores of Hell's Kitchen kids found it a charming place. Every afternoon they were invited inside to play. There were always comic books in the hymnal box; nobody objected if small fry yelled in the gospel hall or rolled empty garbage cans along the front sidewalk...
Episcopalians have long been justifiably proud of their hymnal. Last week Episcopalians got an even better one: the Joint Commission on the Revision of the Hymnal, appointed in 1937, produced the fruits of six years' labors...
...revised Hymnal's nearly 600 hymns (an increase of about 40) 201 are new. Some hymns have been dropped. Most of these, like Tarry With Me, O My Saviour, were on the egocentric side. The current trend is toward theocentric hymns. Two surprising deletions: Julia Ward Howe's Battle Hymn of the Republic, Tennyson's Crossing...