Word: hymning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said the voice. Suddenly a spotlight flashed on to catch a daub of silicone paint on one of the figure's lower eyelids, to give the illusion of a glistening tear. The show reached its smash climax with the sudden illumination of six papier-mache choirboys singing a hymn...
...Afternoon Concert. Hartman--Symphony #6 (D) DL 9861; Handoshkin--Var. on Theme (Mon) 2019; Benevoli--Hymn to St. Rupert (E) LC 3035; Berkeley--Trio (W) Wn 18515; Weber--Piano Concerto #1 (V) VRY 8150; Ravel--Violin Sonata (M) Mg. 50089; Ditterskorf--Concerto for Violin and Double Bass (HSLP) Hayd. 9052; Dvorak--Quintet in G Major...
Jack Levine's King Asa is a hymn to tradition and one executed with devilish skill. But can this form, as Fogg hopes, an alternative to anarchy and a cue for the future? Such prospects can only be viewed with extreme pessismism. This is the exterior, not the soul, of the old master...
...over the Far East, 19th century Christian missionaries tried to win the heathen with the hymn-huffing harmonium. Now from West German Protestant Theologian Ernst Benz comes an attack on the meek little organ as an instrument of "tyranny and dictatorship" that smothers rather than kindles the spread of Christian music in Asia. Some rebellious young Americans are using the phonograph, Dr. Benz reports, but this "increases the dangerous identification of Christian religion with Western technology." The real need is encouragement of native musicians using native instruments to perform the finest Christian music in their own way. "Freedom fighters must...
...Dello Joio's 15-minute cantata performed in Kansas City was adapted from Poet John Dryden's famed A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, a poem intended, in Dello Joio's words, as "a big hymn glorifying music in the cosmic sense-the miracle of it all." Sung by the University of Kansas Choir with brass accompaniment, the work often had the rich sonority of a cathedral organ. A simple, stirring work with no sharply dissonant edges, the cantata was marked by the melodic interplay of brasses and voices and by some stunningly lush vocal...