Word: organism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles Michael Schwab or a Pierre Samuel du Pont, you may have an organ of your own and a private organist all to yourself. If you are rich but less exacting, you still may have an organ but only a part-time organist to play on it. If you are of a whimsical turn and have ever pumped an oldtime church organ, you probably belong to The Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers (TIME, May 25). If you go to church you may know your parish organist. Many a person goes to cinemas partly to hear the tremolos and chime...
...choral specialists" in place of organists. Said Rowland W. Dunham, director of the College of Music at the University of Colorado (Boulder, Col.): "We are all agreed that good, unaccompanied choral singing is beautiful, appropriate and desirable, but is that all that should be heard in church? Shall the organ be silent except for its necessary help on the hymns, a very short prelude and a totally useless postlude? I think not. Of course the organist is still a necessary evil in most churches where this new type of choirmaster is in control. ... At best the position of the organist...
...organists discussed technical, mechanical organ-problems, heard Pianist-Author John Erskine tell them that "the best music of the future" would be composed by them. They elected him an honorary member of the Association. They listened to the Schola Cantorum sing old motets under Conductor Hugh Ross, made a tour of Manhattan's finest church-organs: at St. Patrick's, St. Bartholomew's, Riverside Church, Temple Emanuel, Trinity Church and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Inventor-Pianist Hans Barth played for them on his quarter-tone piano...
...circulation: 100,000), biggest in the land. The year after he purchased Bollettino Delia Sera (circulation: 35,000). Last week he acquired another one - Carrier e d 'America (circulation: 60,000). Corriere and II Progresso have Sunday editions. Still in dependent is // Nuovo Mundo, Labor and anti-Fascist organ (circulation: 32,000). Publisher Pope's reasons for his purchases: ''To hold together the Italian colony in the United States. ... To prevent out side interests getting hold of these mediums . . . possibly to cause dissension later." With his near-monopoly, Generoso Pope, sandman, contractor, publisher, is indeed...
...vary the volume further and more finely by pressing the left pedal. The right (sustaining) pedal is like that of a standard piano, will hold a tone until it dies away. A second row of dampers, controlled by a lever, makes the tone sound like that of a reed organ...