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...Tories, who gathered for their annual conference at Blackpool this week, were begging party officials "to get them inspired." There was no doubt about the Labor delegates' mood as they bellowed The Red Flag ("Come dungeon dark or gallows grim/ This song shall be our parting hymn") and hit the road to Jerusalem. The wind of change from Scarborough was infectious. "Me vote Tory?" exclaimed one Soho pub pundit. "That would be like Noah picketing the flood...
...carried 785 marchers-many of them youngsters in their teens or early 20s who, as a result of their participation in Negro demonstrations, had spent time in Southern jails or carried on their bodies the scars inflicted by Southern cops. They piled off the train singing the battle hymn of the Negro's 1963 revolution, We Shall Overcome. Their spirit perked up hundreds of other Negroes still wandering aimlessly around the depot...
...bell tolled mournfully from the vast hilltop monument of Douaumont, where 100,000 nameless skeletons are entombed. French army drums and bugles sounded the solemn Sonnerie aux Morts, France's ancient salute to the fallen. A chorus of clear young voices intoned the German army's somber hymn, Ich hatt' einen Kameraden. Then a torchlit procession of 1,400 young Germans and 700 French youths wound down the damp hillside. The ceremony was part of a movement started by Father Theobald Rieth, a German Jesuit who set out ten years ago to turn the graveyards...
During the long and uncertain trek westward over the plains in 1847, Brigham Young's Mormon pioneers obeyed this admonition, never beginning a day without a song or meeting the night without a hymn of thanks. So ingrained did the joyful habit of singing become that Young founded a choir at journey's end. This week the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, having long since won world renown, starts its 35th year of radio broadcasting-the longest sustained network program in history...
...with Veteran Organists Alexander Schreiner or Frank Asper, the choir, nicknamed "the singing Saints," has a weight and body unexcelled in choral sound. But "we have not let this become a canned thing," says Director Condie, and he often explores more dissonant modern music. Still, his favorite is a hymn written by one who went with Brigham Young's wagon train, William Clayton, while the prairie winds blew about...