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...Gordon Sinclair, 73, a Toronto TV and radio personality who broadcast those sentiments over Canadian radio last June in an editorial entitled "Americans." The response was so enthusiastic from U.S. listeners who were tuned in that Sinclair made a record of the editorial, with the strains of the Battle Hymn of the Republic in the background. Another Canadian, a news director named Byron MacGregor, 25, was so stirred by Sinclair's encomium that he too made a recording of it, with America, the Beautiful as background music. Sales of the records zoomed in five weeks to a total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: A Different Drummer | 1/21/1974 | See Source »

...RIVER NIGER. The hymn-deep, groin-stabbing, laugh-lacerating life of the American black, rendered with love, anger and precision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Year's Best | 12/31/1973 | See Source »

...solution: At 1:45 a.m., 20 M-48 tanks move through the rioting city and encircle the Institute. At 2 a.m. the tanks point their guns at the students who are perched on the walls and on the iron gate singing Greece's National Anthem, "Hymn of Freedom," and yelling "The army is with us," "You are our brothers," "No blood...

Author: By Efthimios O. Vidalis, | Title: 'The Tanks Have Turned Their Guns on Your Children' | 12/17/1973 | See Source »

...Sarah Brown) attempt to convert Broadway's crap-gamesters, Sky, Nathan, and their cohorts, from a life of sin. Sky, always looking for a wager, boasts that he can "get any doll," whereupon Nathan does a slow take in the direction of Sister Sarah, as she sings a processional hymn, "Follow the Fold." "Oh, no...not that'doll'!" exclaims Sky. Of course, Sky and Sarah eventually fall for each other. Mean-while, Sarah's job is jeopardized by her failure to bring in enough lost souls to the Mission, and the "heat" is on, forcing Nathan and friends to find...

Author: By Matthew Gabel, | Title: Nathan Detroit's Alive and Well | 11/10/1973 | See Source »

With a Choir known for its purity of approach to performance, the soprano descant to the processional hymn, Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones, came as a surprise to more than a few listeners. There was a burst of sound as the last verse of the hymn exploded with brass and timpani joining the congregation and organ and the sopranos soaring off in their solo. This elaborate orchestration with descant is more familiar to St. Paul's Church than Memorial Church; it should be done more often here...

Author: By Kenneth Hoffman, | Title: Choral Evensong | 10/31/1973 | See Source »

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