Word: lutheranism
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...Director Jones, big test of the two-day festival was the five-hour B Minor Mass. Composed about 1738, when Johann Sebastian Bach was in the plenitude of his powers, it is the only Catholic mass written by the Lutheran composer.* Bach chose the form because its complexity gave adequate play to his technical resources and expression to his love of God. For many years performed nowhere in the U. S. but at Bethlehem, it is now an annual climax to other choir seasons, is perhaps the most famous liturgical choral work in existence...
...ordinary of the Roman Catholic Mass consists of five parts: the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus and Agnus Dei. The Lutheran service uses only the first...
Last week 8,000 stolid Scandinavian-Americans converged in cars and busses on the little hilltop college town of Northfield, Minn. Only the first 4,000 jammed their way into the red brick gymnasium of St. Olaf Lutheran College. The rest sprawled on the surrounding lawns. What drew all these people to St. Olaf's gymnasium was a two-day festival of choral music. Delegations of husky Lutheran choristers from all the surrounding States had come to St. Olaf to sing. Together they made a huge chorus of 1,400 voices. When that chorus boomed forth its repertory...
...what really made the visitors cup their ears was the singing of 65 straw-haired youngsters who compose St. Olaf's own Lutheran Choir. This choir has been rated by many a connoisseur as the finest of its type in the U. S., perhaps even in the world...
Alma Swensson was the prim, capable wife of a Lutheran schoolman in the little Swedish-American town of Lindsborg, Kans. (pop. 2,004). Alma Swensson loved Handel's oratorio, The Messiah, decided that her Swedish neighbors should hear it too. So she sent for the music, gathered a chorus of young people from the surrounding towns and farms, rehearsed them and let the welkin ring. That...