Word: organ
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Throughout the performance the slender little composer sat almost hidden behind the organ console at the far right of the stage. Sometimes he used his great instrument to strengthen the choruses. More often it was only to blend with the orchestra or round out massive undertones worthy of his subject. Pietro Yon proved years ago that he is a musician before he is an organist. He had not written an oratorio to exhibit his own virtuosity, to show how his feet could travel the pedals, his fingers control the maze of stops...
Roman emperors liked the organ because it was the loudest wind instrument. They called it an hydraulus because air was fed into its pipes by a water contrivance. In the Seventh Century Pope Vitalian recommended an organ for churches with a view to improving the singing of congregations. The first keys were as big as the treadle of a knife-grinder's machine. Strength was the first requisite of a player, who struck at the great slabs with his fist, had the title of "organ-beater." Early in the 15th Century pedals were introduced because the bass keys were...
...pours it into the rear of the Wolfs baggy trousers. The Wolf, convinced that he is being peppered from the rear by a machine gun, scuttles off. The two frivolous piglets arrive in time to join the celebration at Grandma's cottage. The prudent pig pumps the organ for their dance. Major flaw of The Big Bad Wolf is not that it wildly distorts a well known nursery story. This is Disney license. But Disney license is not enough to explain why Frank Churchill, who scored The Three Little Pigs, was not required to compose new music...
...instantly apparent last week that the life of the Jewish member of the Bürgerschaft will not be an easy one. No sooner was the new city charter announced than Heimatschueter, the personal organ of Prince Starhemberg, printed a sharp anti-Semitic attack...
Proceeding extemporaneously with prayers, speeches and hymns sung to the Tabernacle organ, one of the world's mightiest, the 104th Conference touched little upon secular problems. Of interest to the Latter-day Saints were reports on their church's huge investments in mines, rails and sugar beets, the extent of which they wisely keep secret...