Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following the 47th, 48th and 49th annual meeting of The Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers in New York City last May, a Mr. Bill Furth of your magazine wrote a lengthy article on the organization (TIME, May 25), and the meeting was broadcast in TIME'S March of Events Weekly Program. As a result of this activity on your part something like 50 new members have joined and received their degrees of Fellow Pumper. Included in this number was Lunsford P. Yundell, president of the Mohawk Mining Co., who pumped a pipe organ in Danville...
...Cocteau drifted into the bare little shop one day, heard Wiener play Bach, told others. Cocteau named the place Le Boeuf sur le Toil (The Bull on the Roof). Wiener soon afterward acquired a partner, one Clement Doucet who drifted into Le Boeuf to display an elaborate invention, part organ, part piano. The invention ir.ade slight impression on Wiener but Doucet's lazy, easy way of playing fascinated him. The pair went in for two-piano music, particularly for flowered transcriptions of U. S. jazz. Composers Igor Stravinsky and Maurice Ravel started going to hear them along with Composer...
...service will open at 10.45 and will be preceded by a quarter of an hour of instrumental and organ music by Jessie Hatch Symonds, violin...
...years. Also, the reelection of Bishop James De Wolf Perry of Rhode Island as presiding bishop, regarded not long ago as a fait accompli, was suddenly threatened by a faction which backed Bishop Ernest Milmore Stires of Long Island. Wrote Dr. Alexander Griswold Cummins in The Chronicle (official organ of the Protestant Episcopal Church League, an evangelical organization): "He [Bishop Perry] has been the least picturesque and effective of our Presiding Bishops. . . .His cope, mitre and pastoral staff aptitudes have caused dismay to some, and led others to ridicule what should be a dignified office. He looks well...
...Rocke feller) Riverside Church and of its predecessor, the Park Avenue Baptist Church. Born 42 years ago in Astoria, Ore., he is blond, bespectacled, looks less esthetic than businesslike. He has studied early U. S. music, written the sole biography of Composer Stephen Collins Foster, com posed songs, organ pieces and operettas. Lately he has devoted all his time to organ-playing and managing the N. A. O. and the National Music League which, with Mrs. Otto Hermann Kahn as its president, helps young U. S. musicians get ahead. Last month he represented U. S. organists at the Anglo-American...