Word: organists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entirely inadequate. I want to ask all of you who have $10, and are willing to contribute it, to stand up." About 25 delegates arose. "Well, it doesn't have to be $10. Have you got $5? Form a line and come up and give anything you can." Organist Firmin Swinnen swung into "Onward Christian Soldiers." By dozens, by hundreds, by thousands, the Episcopalians trooped up to the altar. Singing fervently as they marched, they pulled $10, $5 and $1 bills from their wallets, fluttered them on the altar steps like autumn leaves. When the last...
...SCOTT BUHRMAN, F. A. G. O. Editor The American Organist Staten Island...
Thus, in your May 7 issue under Music, you fail to include the name of Charles Heinroth, former Organist and Director of Music at Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh and now associated with the College of the City of New York, who outclasses many of the men you mention...
...artist first, then a musician and organist, Dr. Heinroth in a quarter-century of recitals in Pittsburgh established an unequaled standard of program building and organ playing. With a technical mastery superior to the demands made upon it by every musical form from dance to symphony, he endows his interpretations with that beauty and authority that comes only to the executant whose understanding and insight go far beyond mere recital playing...
...right of the stage. Sometimes he used his great instrument to strengthen the choruses. More often it was only to blend with the orchestra or round out massive undertones worthy of his subject. Pietro Yon proved years ago that he is a musician before he is an organist. He had not written an oratorio to exhibit his own virtuosity, to show how his feet could travel the pedals, his fingers control the maze of stops...