Word: hymning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...series of gloom-ridden episodes, recollections, even a bleak little prison play in pantomime; 16 of its 17 singing roles are men; it contains a minimum of tunes and some very strange harmonic goings-on indeed. And yet it is a strong work from overture to the final hymn to freedom, and is even gripping in three long narratives by the prisoners against a background of unnerving orchestral fantasy. Over all hangs an eerie, Kafka-like haze that results partly from the use of exotic folk idiom, partly from acoustical theories that led Janacek to dispense with accepted harmonic transitions...
...garish canyon of Seventh Avenue, the traveler finds a varied evening cacophony. Bus engines whine. Subway trains roar through sidewalk gratings. On a corner a Salvation Army band pleads Onward! Christian Soldiers. Suddenly, through an open door, comes a shattering crash and a high-pitched wail, and a competing hymn bounces through the tortured air: When the Saints Go Marching...
...Class Ode, written to the tune of "Fair Harvard," is the class hymn. It will be sung by the Class Chorister after being road at the Class Day exercises...
Under a grey late-afternoon sky, some 15,000 hymn-chanting men and women paraded in downtown Buenos Aires last week, following a sound truck manned by priests...
Flames Over the Highlands. ius last week began Billy Graham's "All Scotland Crusade." It was, as usual, well-organized. First there was a press conference, next a civic reception, where Glasgow's Lord Provost accompanied ermine-cloaked dignitaries in a round of gospel-hymn singing. That night Billy met 7,000 well-briefed stewards, counselors and choristers, waiting for his instructions. "I believe the flames that burned in Scotland centuries ago can burn again." he told them. "A spiritual awakening in Scotland will encourage the entire world at a very critical period...