Word: hymning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Northern Baptists held their 43rd annual convention in Boston's red brick Mechanics' Hall with plenty of fervent hymn-singing and services on Boston Common. To preside for the coming year over the 2,000,000 Northern Baptists in 36 states, the 3,000 delegates elected the Rev. Dr. Edward H. Pruden, pastor of Washington's First Baptist Church, which Baptist Harry Truman attends...
Died. Bertha ("Chippie") Hill, 45, brass-voiced blues singer in the oldtime Bessie Smith tradition; after being hit by an automobile; in Harlem. Chippie would try any request from her stomping audiences except a hymn: "You can't play with God in a nightclub ... As long as I work for the Devil, I better continue with...
...outdoor concert demands a program of fairly robust music, as well as precise diction. The Glee Club met both these tests. They were best in "Gaudeamus," a college medley in a very clever arrangement by William Russell; Harvard Hymn, Glorious Appollo, Bacchanal, and Marching to Pretoria were also well suited to outdoor singing. "Magdelein im Walde," a Czech folk song, was the only muggy spot on the program, and it got the loudest response from the birds. After the concert, a large part of the audience joined the Glee Club in gusty renditions of football songs...
...Harvard Hymn, by John Knowles Paine '69; Glorious Aplie, by Webbe (written for the first glee club, London, 1790); Tenebrae Factac Sunt, by Ingegneri, Bacchanal, by Cocchi, from Apollonian Harmony; Marching to Pretoria (South African Veldt song), arranged by Ruth E. Abbot; Magdlein lm Waide, by Dvorak (Czech Folk Song, Op. 43, No. 3, 1877); Gaudemus, College Medley, arranged for the Glee Club by William F. Russell...
...many in the audience of 4,000 applauded loudly, though here & there some boos were audible. A front-row group of youths wearing the badge of Italy's neo-fascist M.S.I, party rose with shouts of "Bravo! Bravo" and joined in the singing of the onetime official Fascist hymn. Singer Baker looked on perplexed, then with dawning embarrassment. By the time Covella reached the final chorus-"and for Benito Mussolini, hooray, hooray, a la la"-the police had rushed from the back of the theater, stormed the stage and bound him with handcuffs. The defiant singer was hustled...