Word: organ
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though born to a family of musical traditions (his great grandfather made the first pipe-organ west of the Alleghenies) and intent upon studying to qualify as organist of the Pittsburgh Presbyterian Church, Mr. Cadman, as a lad, entered the employ of the Carnegie Steel Co., worked as messenger boy under Charles M. Schwab. Into the office he dragged couplings, hung them on a frame, created a metallophone after a fashion. Thus equipped, he be guiled the tedious hours of clerks and bookkeepers with lilting, popular tunes. During these "office days," the melodies kept rippling through his head, took embryonic...
...program for these services will be as follows: Organ Prelude: a Prelude in G major Bach b Pastoral Symphony from The Messiah Handel Choral: "O my Deir Hert" Bach Carol: "Christmas Song" Holst Carol: "When He was born" Neapolitan Melody Carol: "The First Noel" Traditional Carol: "Bring a Torah Jeanette, Isabella" French Melody Carol: "Christ Is Born of Maiden Fair" Gauntlett Congregational Hymn: "Adeste Fideles" Reading Carol: "Le Miracle de St. Nicolas" Lorraine Melody Carol: "Les Anges dans Nes Campagnes" Old French Melody Chorus: "How Beautiful are the Feet" from The Messiah Handel Organ Postlude: Halleujah Chorus, from The Messiah...
Professor Peabody closed the service with a short player, "a prayer of thanks giving and praise." There was no choir. Dr. Davison played briefly on the organ. The Harvard men gathered there sang "The Character of a Happy Life," and "The King of Love my Shepherd is." That was all. President Eliot was never content to sit back and look over the past. He was almost to the very end concerned with the future. This was the spirit of the service...
...recital this afternoon, Professor Davison will play a program of compositions for the organ by Johann Sebastian Bach...
...Recinal of Compositions for the Organ by J. S. Bach". Professor Davison, Appleton Chapel...