Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Mrs. Aroline Pinkham Gove, 81, only daughter of the late Lydia E. ("Vegetable Compound") Pinkham; in Marblehead, Mass...
...Haining, commander of the British forces in Palestine, mustered 15,000 troops, 7.300 policemen, and 700 aviators to counter the expected Jewish reaction. Jews have spilled little blood in retaliation for Arab terrorism, but the British "betrayal" made many of them fighting mad. Indignant manifestoes were loudly cheered at mass meetings: "Palestine Jewry declares this betrayal policy will never materialize. Palestine Jewry will fight it with all its forces." In Jerusalem 5,000 demonstrators armed with stones battled club-swinging police. Toll: 135 Jews and five constables injured; one constable killed. Most Jews regretted the actions of belligerents, preferred...
...Bethlehem Bach Choir dates from 1898. Its founder was a rapt, indefatigable German-American named J. Fred Wolle who slaved for two years to train local steelworkers and shopkeepers for their first public performance in 1900 of Bach's prodigious B Minor Mass. He conducted every Festival thereafter until his death in 1933, achieved such marvels of choral attack and expression that Bethlehem became almost as famous for singing as for steel. Guarantors who helped him with the annual Festival included Bethlehem Steel's Chairman Charles M. Schwab...
...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...