Word: organ
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germanic Museum has announced a program of music for organ and strings to be given tonight in the main hall by E. Power Biggs and members of the Stradivarius Quartet.. Opening the program is a group of English organ solos by William Byrd. John Bull, Purcell. William Walond, organist at Oxford in the eighteenth century, and John Stanley, the famous blind organist at the Temple during the same century. Byrd's Pavan for the Earl of Salisbury was commonly played on the virginals, and Purcell's Trumpet Voluntary and Trumpet Airs on the harpsichord. But since at that time...
...extremely interesting section of the program is to be devoted to chamber-music by Corelli and Mozart for two violins, cello, and organ continuo. Sonatas written for this combination, with the harpsichord as an alternate for the continuo, were the equivalent in Corelli's day of the string quartet, and in fact evolved into the later form during the classical period. Corelli himself wrote a tremendous volume of them, some forty odd, of which two are to be played tonight. Three of Mozart's one-movement sonatas for the same combination of instruments will also be played, and they probably...
They Walk Alone (by Max Catto, produced by Ben A. Boyar) is the latest of the many dramas of British rural horror. The servant girl on an English gentleman's farm has dark compulsions to play the chapel organ in the middle of the night. The music stirs her libido and she thereupon lures young men out on the moors. There, after presumable orgies, her conscience apparently asserts itself. She murders her partners and, it would seem, commits on them certain unmentionable excess damages-the play isn't very clear about...
...have therefore to think of the brain as an organ of liaison between energy and mind, but not as a converter of energy into mind or vice versa...
Hearing: a physical sense with a particular type of terminal organ responsible to a particular type of stimulus...