Word: organists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gabriel Faure: Requiem (Chanteurs de Lyon and Trigintour Instrumental Lyonnais, E. Bourmauck, conducting, with Edouarde Commette, organist; Columbia: 10 sides). One of the profoundest works by a modern Frenchman. Beautifully performed...
...retired partner of the conservative William Street insurance firm, Ives & Myrick. A practical Yankee, bristle-bearded Ives long ago decided that he couldn't make a living writing the kind of music he wanted to write. On his graduation from Yale in 1898 he served as a church organist, playing in Danbury, Conn., Bloomfield, N. J., and finally in Manhattan. Weekdays he plugged as a clerk for Mutual Life Insurance Co. Industrious and daring both as businessman and composer, Ives soon formed his own insurance managing agency, helped build it into one of the largest of its kind...
Buxtehude: Missa Brevis, and Johann Hermann Schein: Motet "Die Mit Tranen Säen" (Motet Singers, Paul Boepple conducting; Musicraft: 4 sides). In 1700, grand old man of European music was a Swedish composer and organist named Dietrich Buxtehude. His quaint, archaic Missa Brevis is as deft and complicated as a Renaissance tapestry. Composer Schein's motet, added for good measure, was written about half a century earlier...
...being held for "ransom," a gangster trick through the ages. But not only Jews have suffered. Out of Germany has come a steady, ever-swelling stream of refugees, Jews and Gentiles, liberals and conservatives, Catholics as well as Protestants, who could stand Naziism no longer. TIME'S cover, showing Organist Adolf Hitler playing his hymn of hate in a desecrated cathedral while victims dangle on a St. Catherine's wheel and the Nazi hierarchy looks on, was drawn by Baron Rudolph Charles von Ripper (see p. 20), a Catholic who found Germany intolerable. Meanwhile, Germany has become a nation...
...minister's son sees organs as well as pulpits. In 1904, as the Boy Organist at the St. Louis World's Fair, young Sayle was a lace-collared child prodigy. Music paid his way through William Jewell College in Liberty, Mo., carried him into a medical course at Pacific University. He preferred surgery to both preaching and music, but a traffic accident left his hands minus coordination of muscles and nerves...