Word: hymning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Linking Depression and New Deal, the Chamber's dry, bespectacled president, 62-year-old George Harvey Davis of Kansas City, gave the pitch of this year's business hymn in his opening speech. Excerpt: "Back of all of the questions that will be brought before you for discussion during these three days lies a much larger question. It is whether business-the American system of business-is to endure or whether some other kind of system, is to take its place...
...program will be: Harvard Hymn, by Paine; Student Songs of the Seventeenth Century, by Schein; Supplicationes, Palestrina; Psaume 121, by Milhaud; Gently Johnny, English Folk Song; Tarantella, by Randall Thompson; Men of Harlech, Welsh Folk Song; Libeslieder, by Brahms; Canon; O Du Eselhafter Martin, by Mozart; Choruses from the Yeoman of the Guard, Sullivan...
...Widener spread the cement with a silver trowel, and the stone was lowered into place, while the choir sang Martin Luther's impressive hymn, "Nun danket alle Gott." President Lowell then introduced Justice Swayze, president of the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Massachusetts, speaking especially of the fittingness of the cornerstone of the Memorial, being laid in the presence of the first scholars of the University...
...been singing the song for months, Loch Lomond had already been swung to a fare-ye-well, and nobody had paid much attention. But Columbia press-agents worked the Detroit incident for all it was worth, delved into musicological tomes, emerged with the pronouncement: "Bach made fancy arrangements of hymn tunes of Luther. . . . Now people make a fuss when Stokowski makes arrangements of tunes by Bach...
...reformed character and deserved a pardon. Thereupon, he went piously from town to town preaching sermons on "Ruin and Reform." Very soon, when he was arrested again for stealing chickens, the county constables found a pistol and burglar's tools in his bag along with his Bible and hymn book. From then on he was never out of jail for very long at a time. In 1935, in the Cherry Hill prison of Philadelphia, he died. His modest brother Joe was with him at the time...