Word: listened
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wide variety of subjects, always in the same characteristic manner. "Education and common sense; they are the same, and the world needs educated men now. The world has been run too long by politicians; we want statesmen today, men who will lean on the breast of truth and listen to its heart beat...
...book written completely in an unknown tongue tends somewhat to lack interest. The average American will go docilely to listen to a play in Russian or Italian or French, though the nicer turns of phrase leave him relatively cold. There are always redeeming features. There are the coiling hands of Duse. There is the highly cultivated naturalness of the Moscow players. There are the snakes and daggers and dark shadows of the Grand Guignol...
...Emphatically they prove nothing against beardless brilliance. Horrible as a nation of prodigies would be, one now and then escapes premature impotence. There was a boy Chatterton who fooled wiseacres, an astounding child Macaulay, and the infant Mozart who played so sweetly that the whole family risked pneumonia to listen. And then, more recently, there is Daisy Ashford and the "Young Visitors...
...such a move would partially defeat the purpose of the carol services, which are for the students first of all and is therefore undesirable there is still the public, eager and appreciative, largely excluded from the Chapel. People interested enough to stand in the vestibule these cold nights and listen at long range deserve some consideration. A special service for the public would go far toward distributing the pleasure of hearing the choir...
...program is as follows: Organ Prelude (a) Prelude in G major Bach (b) Pastoral Symphony Handel Salutation Invocation Carol, "Silent Night" J. Michael Haydn Carol, "Listen, Lordings, unto me" Osgood Carol, "The Angels and the Shepherds". Riedel Scripture Reading--Luke 2: 1-20 Carol, "Paryum quando cerno Deum" Osgood Chorus, "The Shepherds' Farewell to the Holy Family" Berlioz Congregational Hymn, "Adesto Fideles" J. Roading Carol, "Chanson joyeuse de Noel" F. A. Gewaert Carol, "The First Nowell" Traditional Chorus, "Listen to the Lambs" R. Nathaniel Dett Chorus, "Hallelujah, Amen" Handel Benediction Postlude, Toccata Boellmann