Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Requiem the singers face a problem quite different from any they have met in a work of major proportions in recent years. It is probably harder to perform well than either the Beethoven Missa Solemnis or the Bach St. Matthew's Passion. Though the latter are physically more difficult, they are comparatively clear-cut in their problems of nuance and phrasing. They are not particularly intimate in their sentiments; that is, there is a certain broadness about them which lends itself to interpretation by groups almost as well as by individuals. In the Requiem, however, the expression is much more...
Last week Lindsborg's chorus sang its 168th Messiah. Visitors from as far away as Mexico swelled the little Kansas town to two-and-a-half times its normal population. Besides the Messiah the Lindsborgers sang Bach's surging, intricate St. Matthew Passion. Twice a week for many weeks, the husky, hard-handed choristers had rehearsed with religious earnestness. Some drove from farms 50 miles away. Imported soloists from the East marveled at the sober fervor with which they chanted the complicated scores...
Rhode Island's scholarly, libertarian Senator Theodore Francis Green last week returned to Washington with a warm appreciation of tropic hospitality. Along with New York's Republican Representative Hamilton Fish and Democratic Representative Matthew Merritt, Democrat Green was the guest last fortnight of the Dominican Republic's Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina. In Ciudad Trujillo (the General's new name for the venerable city of Santo Domingo), the U. S. delegation looked upon 1) a box (which remained unopened) containing a tiny heap of bone & dust billed as the true "last parts" of Christopher Columbus...
...democracy from complete destruction." To a liberal group which met last week in a West Philadelphia Y. M. C. A., intolerance of intolerance seemed a contradiction in terms. It acted on its convictions. This Committee for Racial and Religious Tolerance-an organization headed by such men as Quaker Rufus Matthew Jones, Baptist Daniel Alfred Poling, Congressman Francis J. Myers-was in session when 30 hecklers burst into its meeting. The Committee tolerantly let them heckle. The invaders shouted denunciations of Jews and praise of Hitler, tossed around anti-Semitic pamphlets and stickers...
Among nationally prominent people who may join the sessions are Dorothy Thompson, columnist for the New York Herald Tribune; Sumner Welles and Francis B. Sayre of the State Department; Edsel Ford and Alfred P. Sloan, representing the automobile industry; Admiral Land, of the Maritime Commission; Walter Lippmann; Matthew Woll, labor leader, and Roger Baldwin, of the American Civil Liberties Union...