Word: organ
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unwritten law at St. Mary's required the new organist to marry his predecessor's wife or daughter. Buxtehude's daughter was so old and ugly that Bach went back to his organ post at Arnstadt. Authorities there began to complain that the congregation could not sing to his "many, wonderful variations" and "strange tonalities." Buxtehude had given Bach a technique instead of a bride...
...schedule includes: "American Neutrality, 1914-1917", James P. Baxter, Professor of History, May 4; concerts by the Glee Club on May 11, May 18, and May 25; organ recitals on May 11 and May 25 by Archibald T. Davison '05, Professor of Choral Music; and "The Political System of Japan", Dr. Albert E. Hindmarsh, instructor in Government, May 18. The station broadcasts on 6.04 and 11.79 metacycles...
...Rubenstein has departed with his slaked lime, but others have come to take his place to divert the Vagabond. A great pipe organ rises in the loft of the main hall. Wires, pipes, bellows and queerly shaped pieces of wood are strewn about in ordered confusion. It seems fitting that there should be an organ here to express in music the Wagnerian scenes of Lewis Rubenstein's murals, but I fear for the effects of its vibrations upon the fragile plaster casts of mediaeval saints...
...elections last year the Rexists won 271,000 votes out of Belgium's total of 2,360,000. Most of these came from Brussels and the agricultural districts. A top-notch propagandist, Degrelle now publishes his organ Rex in three editions, French, Flemish, German, has a circulation...
Twice married Mr. Dykstra has a daughter Elizabeth, 24, a stepson Franz, 16, who is a junior at the University School of Cincinnati, a 2-year-old grandson named Stephen Dykstra Posey. Last week Cedric Parker of Madison's Capital Times, a Progressive organ which remorselessly hounded glib, dressy Republican Frank, interviewed Mr. Dykstra and found that "he does not wear spats, carries no cane, and doesn't care if his trousers are in press...