Word: organists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sixty-one years ago when the organist of St. George's Episcopal Church, Flushing, L. I. lost the use of a hand, his 13-year-old son stepped up to the console, took his father's place. Six years later Son Raymond Huntington Woodman became organist at First Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn. He is still there, a goateed, white-haired, 74-year-oldster who has written many a song, anthem and organ piece, played more than 50,000 numbers. Genteel Organist Woodman says: "When I first went into music it was regarded as equivalent to retiring from social life...
...from being retired, Organist Woodman last week was the happy centre of attention in a great throng of his colleagues in Manhattan's Hotel Astor. In session was the 14th general convention of the American Guild of Organists which he helped found in 1896. To its 1,000 delegates he declared: "Modern music is going crazy. There is too much jazz, and jazz means dissonance. The standard of organ playing has greatly improved. The higher type music of such modern American composers as Horatio Parker, Arthur Foote and George W. Chadwick has superseded the old church music of comparatively...
...work as Assessor-Extraordinary of Sweden's Royal Board of Mines and for his invention of a device for transporting ships overland, he was ennobled in 1719. In Sweden's Parliament he pioneered in fiscal reforms and liquor regulation. He knew nine languages, was an accomplished organist and Latin versifier, mastered three crafts and dabbled in four others. Finally in 1744, aged 57, he began talking with angels and spirits...
...realized that it was a rare, good tune in its smooth, nostalgic style. And it served to turn attention to quiet Ray Noble, no ordinary, illiterate, catchpenny songwriter but the well-mannered son of a well-to-do London neurologist and a nephew of T. Tertius Noble, the venerated organist of St. Thomas' Episcopal Church in Manhattan. Organist Noble has never been known to hum "Goodnight, Sweetheart." Nor has he ever met his nephew, famed now for having turned out some of the best dance records in England. But only three blocks away from St. Thomas' last week...
Composer George Gershwin was one of the first skeptical listeners but he signed the first sale order. Honest Fritz Reiner, Philadelphia's opera conductor, spoke praisingly at the first demonstration. Soloist was Organist Pietro Yon of St. Patrick's Cathedral (TIME, May 7, 1934). Under his command, the new instrument seemed capable of a thousand effects. It was full-toned and rich, eerie and soft. In a modern pipe organ, similar sounds depend on electric blowers. A separate pipe is required for each separate tone. Mechanism of the new instrument is all in the console...