Word: instrumentality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...call my people to prayer and dedication. We are not unmindful of our own shortcomings. We shall ask not that God may do our will but that we may do the will of God, and we dare to believe that God has used our nation and empire as an instrument for fulfilling His highest purpose...
...explanatory as anyone was ample, well-meaning Contralto Josefina ("Cha-cha") Aguilar, who sang Ponce's La Mort under another conductor. She had handed the six-instrument score to Stokowski. It was not Ponce's score; Ponce, unable to find a full orchestral score, had agreed to let her offer the smaller one to the conductor, but asked her to explain the situation. Somehow the explanation got lost along...
...American Guild of Organists, 6,000 strong and "absolutely nonsectarian," met in Manhattan last week. During the meeting outstanding members played in various churches and auditoriums, and the meeting as a whole learnedly considered its common instrument - one which offers perhaps more potential trouble than any other in existence...
...other instrument has such a range; the highest and lowest notes of the biggest organs nudge the limits of human audibility. No other has such a variety of sounds; the $100,000 contraptions of the cinema palaces can imitate anything from a peanut whistle to the crack of doom. No other instrument has such elaborate controls; organ playing, involving several manuals (keyboards), sundry pedals and sometimes hundreds of stops, makes 20-mule-team driving an utter cinch in comparison. An organist's opportunities for musical sins of commission are almost limitless...
...vast Calumet industrial region south of Chicago. Five years ago Dr. Tiffin began to correlate visual skills and job analysis. This week, as a result of their work, the optical firm of Bausch & Lomb announced that it was offering a new visual service to industry, using a new instrument, the Ortho-Rater...