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...Choir, formed only this fall, demonstrated its versatility early in the program with two versions of the "Thrice Holy Hymn." They first sang the Hymn as Tchaikovsky wrote it, with power and spirit. They then presented an arrangement of the original Byzantine anthem, and their enthusiasm was transformed into disciplined solemnity...
...probably the best known of his major works. The texts from the Book of Isaiah are as flamboyant as any I've heard; the choruses, and the work as a whole, epitomize some of his most successful ventures. There are eight verses with tremendously varied settings: a simple hymn; a lament that borders on the sublime (and I'd like to shoot the guy that made the open fifth of the final chord into a major triad); songs of Thanks giving with the longest crescendi since Rossini stopped writing overtures; and a chorus of "Woe unto them that..." that reminds...
...have been accustomed to singing the Lenten hymn, Lord Who Throughout These Forty Days. After reading of Bishop Donegan's suggestion that Lent be shortened from 40 days to a single week or two [March 12], our organist left for me the following note: "Perhaps next year we'll be singing Lord Who Threw Out These Forty Days...
...long, because no lie can live forever. How long? Not long, because you still reap what you sow. How long? Not long, because the arm of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." In a concluding crescendo he boomed out the words of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, shouting "Glory hallelujah! Glory hallelujah! Glory hallelujah! Glory hallelujah...
...with Germany, remember that the millions of Germans who were the Nazis' Hitler Jugend, members of the Gestapo and the SS, will be represented by a German ambassador in Israel with a German flag and with Deutschland über Alles." When Deputy Premier Abba Eban suggested that the hymn could be played in Israel without offense since it was written by a German liberal,* he was hooted down...