Word: hymning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than that of many another patriotic song, is what Variety calls "umpa umpa stuff." It is more singable, more lively than "The Star-Spangled Banner" but immeasurably less musical than "Die Wacht Am Rhein," the Tsarist anthem, or the Haydn tune which the Austrian Empire took for its national hymn. It was natural, then, that the whole world of music should have risen in arms during the last month because a Fascist official demanded that Arturo Toscanini play "Giovinezza" at a memorial concert in Bologna devoted to the works of his friend, the late Giuseppe Martucci...
...entrance to the concert hall that night an angry crowd awaited him. "A morte! (Kill him!)" they shouted. "Is it true you refused to play the Fascist hymn?" He stood firm, his eyes flashing, his moustache bristling. "Yes, it is true!'1 Then their blows rained upon him . . . his mouth gushed blood...
...single "Nassau" at the end of the cheer, thus: "Nassau!" Note that the explosive accent is on the final syllable, the vocalization fairly well drawn out, and a very open vowel sound given to the second half of the word. Compare the concluding line of our college hymn: "Three cheers for Old Nassau." --Daily Princetonian...
...program for tonight follows: Harvard Hymn Paine Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring Bach Now Let Every Tongue Bach Turn Ye to Me Scotch Folk Song The Hundred Pipers Scotch Folk Song Spring Returns Marenzio Jesu Dulcis Vittoria Choruses from "The Gondoliers" Sullivan
Jews do not hold an anthropomorphic (human-formed) conception of the Deity. Dr. Holmes stipulates that hymn No. 76 be used in its entirety...