Word: organ
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the afternoon session the Glee Club plans to give a concert, and Professor Archibald T. Davison is to present an organ recital in the Memorial Church. Dean Willard L. Sperry of the Divinity School will officiate...
...benefit of those who are interested, I repeat here Rachmaninoff's Sunday afternoon program (which, may I add, is a typical Rachmaninoff program in its popular glitter and lack of musicianly interest): Organ Prelude and Fugue, Bach; a Mendelssohn Rondo; a Chopin Nocturne and two Mazurkas; the Sonetto del Petraca and the Rhapsody No. 11 of Liszt, and Beethoven's Sonata Apparrionata, as well as several compositions of Rachmaninoff...
...Germanic Museum will open its fourth season of free organ recitals on Tuesday evening, November 26th, at 8:15, with a concert by Ernest White, distinguished organists of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, New York City. From a large repertory of seventeenth and eighteenth century music, Mr. White has chosen for his program works from rarely heard German and English composers, Handel and Bach, and the "Prelude, Fugue and Variation" by Cesar Franck...
...pikestaff-plain chapels which Methodism's Founder John Wesley built had no organ, no steeple, no bell. Most Methodist churches are still on the bare side. But Christ Church's pastor, Dr. Ralph Washington Sockman, preacher on NBC's National Radio Pulpit, is all for decoration. Says he: "In the past two decades Protestant churches have made a marked advance in the quality of their church architecture . . . with emphasis on the altar rather than on the pulpit. The theatre type of auditorium is giving way to the stately nave...
Fred Martin started out as a hand-organ grinder in a San Francisco roller-skating rink, climaxed his whirring career by winning a roller marathon in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden (309 miles in 24 hours), then settled down to the swivel-chair job of managing rinks. When he took over Detroit's million-dollar Arena Gardens, he began to angle for tonier patronage and a national organization to clean up the country's shady, shoddy roller rinks. He caught both fish...