Word: organ
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finest organs in New England, the organ in Harvard's new Memorial Church, has been heard only once in recital, since its installation a few months ago. The authorities, by wasting such exceptional opportunities for musical culture, are denying many of a pleasure which is in great demand; for the attendance at this one recital showed its popularity. In addition the Fogg Museum of Fine Arts has very recenty sponsored several concerts of combined organ and vocal music which have been well attended. Both the noon hour of music every Sunday from the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City...
...Organ music, because of its sustained and smooth character is perhaps one of the most soothing forms of musical art. The authorities of Harvard have here equipment of unusual excellence whereby an institution of both cultural and recreative value should be created. It should not be allowed to lie thus in innocuous desuetude...
...controlling department would provide uniformity of education and effectively stamp out remaining evidences of American illiteracy. To force a change, however, would require, first, the marshalling of a dormant public opinion into an effective force for action, and, second, the determination of a non-politic department in the federal organ...
...with the growth of musical appreciation all over the U. S., they still refuse to be convinced by musical verdicts other than their own. For 15 years Chicago has been aware of Leo Sowerby, the redhaired, bespectacled young man who on Sundays sits soberly gowned in the organ loft at St. James's Cathedral. Chicago recognizes him as one of the most important U. S. composers. But New Yorkers who went to last week's Philadelphia Orchestra concert were not deeply impressed by the fact that Conductor Eugene Ormandy had chosen to play Sowerby's Prairie. Listeners...
...most important difference is in the conditions under which a press photographer must work. The group gathered around the free coffee and doughnuts behind the stadium press stands is very likely to be the same as that sitting on the stairs to the organ loft of the new Chapel, but whether in the Lowell House common room or on Soldiers Field the cameraman must record the features of the celebrities with speed and certainty...